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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404950771
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 140495077X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 06, 2004
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 34138
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 06, 1983
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Product Description:
The lives and relationships of those within a British traditional touring stage company provide the backdrop for the five-time Oscar® nominee The Dresser (Best Picture; Best Actor; Best supporting Actor; Best Director; Best Screenplay Adaptation). The Dresser is a compelling study of the intense relationship between the leader of the company and his dresser. Sir (Albert Finney) a grandiloquent old man of the theater has given his soul to his career but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the strain of age and illness as he prepares for his two-hundred-twenty-seventh performance of King Lear. Sir's fastidious and fiercely dedicated dresser Norman (Tom Courtenay) submits to Sir's frequently unreasonable demands tends to his health and reminds him of what role he is currently playing. The two men are essential to each other's life. This is a film rich in comedy compassion and love for theater.System Requirements:Running Time: 118 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 043396037465 Manufacturer No: 03746
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It's life in the Theater with a capital T in this film adaptation of the London and Broadway hit by Ronald Harwood. Though we see other people, the film is really a duet between Sir (Albert Finney), an aging actor-manager who runs his own theater company, and Norman (Tom Courtenay), his dresser, who gets him into costume and, ultimately, into shape to go onstage each night. Sir is on his last legs; Norman is alternately his cheerleader, his parent, and his whipping boy--whatever it takes to get Sir up to performance level each night. Finney perfectly captures the vainglorious insecurity of this aging ham, whose career has never quite matched his expectations but who has to convince himself each night (with Norman's help) that a performance in the provinces is as big a deal as treading the boards in the West End. The film lives and dies, however, with Courtenay's neatly nuanced performance as Norman. No man is a hero to his valet--but Courtenay finds the affection along with the disdain that are part of this character. A great backstage tale. --Marshall Fine
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Rating:  - Behind The Scenes
Suffering through the threat of air raids and a dearth of competent actors in an incomparably dreary wartime England, as well as his own ailing health and encroaching dementia, the aging manager and lead star of a Shakespearean troupe (Finney) and his prissy, fastidious, constantly devoted dresser (Courtenay) tend to their extravagant business under the most difficult of circumstances. While the former struggles with his unreliable sanity, the latter must cope with an increasingly difficult employer, ... Read More
Rating:  - Doesn't work in my DVD player
"The Dresser" Do not understand this. This movie does not play in mt DVD player. I put it in and a "loading" message come up then "wrong Disc". This is the only DVD I have that does not work. I previously bought a used copy of the same movie that had the same result so I thought it was defective. Now I don't know what to think. The movie will play on my computer. It is a mystery to me.
Rating:  - The Dresser
Acting at its finest! When Al Pacino was asked about an actor's life his advice was 'see The Dresser'. So my advice to all is 'see The Dresser - you won't be disappointed'.
Rating: - The Dresser
In Peter Yates's wonderful "Dresser," the wartime buffeting of Britain mirrors the physical and mental collapse of a weary thespian, who has performed "Lear" over two hundred times but now can't remember his opening lines. Courtenay is every bit Finney's equal as Norman, the actor's intensely loyal, long-suffering "dresser," and the only person who can get "Sir" onstage for each performance. The gifted Eileen Atkins also resonates as Madge, the company's spinsterish stage manager whose quiet love for ... Read More
Rating: - Learn Something About Lear
I was hoping someone would notice that the relationship between "Sir" and the Dresser parallels the relationship between Lear and his Fool. This is a wonderful story, very funny and sad in its own right.
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