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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035822042032
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 182486
Theatrical Release Date: December 06, 1983
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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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