shirley valentine

Director: lewis gilbert

Actor: pauline collins,tom conti,julia mckenzie,alison steadman

Data Published: Wed Aug 30 1989

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Key Words: greece,vacation,housewife,extramarital affair,holiday romance

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098319/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Valentine

Description: Shirley Valentine is a movie starring Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, and Julia McKenzie. Shirley is a 42-year-old Liverpudlian bored housewife, who takes a holiday trip to Greece, meeting a local man who bolsters her self-confidence....

Plot: Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen, and heads for a fortnight of rest and relaxation. In Greece, with just a little effort on her part, she rediscovers everything she had been missing about her existence in England. She finds so much happiness, in fact, that when the vacation is over she decides not to return, ditching her friend at the airport and going back to the hotel where she'd been staying to ask for a job and to live a newly self-confident life in which she is at last true to herself.