Shirley Valentine

Dreary English housewife takes dream vacation to Greece and discovers LIFE. For all those fed up with their life/job and want to escape, this is the movie for you. Wonderful!... Full review

Dreary English housewife takes dream vacation to Greece and discovers LIFE. For all those fed up with their life/job and want to escape, this is the movie for you. Wonderful!... Full review

Pauline Collins received a deserved Oscar nomination for feel-good performance as Shirley Valentine, stifled working-class housewife from Liverpool who tires of her boring job and dull marriage and splits for a vacation alone in Greece. Willy Russell adapted his own... Full review

I just recommended this movie to a friend who's having her mid-life crisis. Just like Shirley, she can't stop taking care of other people at her own expense. Everyone who reviews this film focuses on its heart-warming qualities, making it... Full review

For me, this movie Shirley Valentine is about changes! You CAN all ways make your self better person and develop. There are no age groups, or other obstacles but only ourselves. Like in movie Sostiene Pereira, when Pereira in his late... Full review

...beautiful, hysterical, heartbreaking Shirley ~ empowering not just women but people everywhere to live their dreams, and to simply be themselves while doing it. This movie's a gem.... Full review

...beautiful, hysterical, heartbreaking Shirley ~ empowering not just women but people everywhere to live their dreams, and to simply be themselves while doing it. This movie's a gem.... Full review

For all of you middle-aged men and women who wonder just who you are, and where you're going; this is the movie for you!! What an insight to the real human spirit!! I've watched this several times and never fail... Full review

It's been my dream since childhood, since I read for the first time the immortal ancient myths and legends; Greece where the sea is so blue that Aphrodite could be born only from its foam and the sun so gold... Full review

I really liked this movie too much... I have seen it lately... great story full of everyday worries and how this woman fights to be as herself again after so many years... this is really outstanding..and it is also very funny... Full review

Shirley is well aware that Carlos is a liar, but she's willing to go along with the affair to jump-start her emotions, to kick her back into the realm of senses that she's been deadened to. Despite the one-sided easiness of most of Shirley Valentine 's targets, there's no denying the depth of some of the truths do come out of this funny, sad comedy. ... Full Review

Shirley is at first reluctant to leave her husband - which is actually just the fear of doing something new - but in the end she does go and, naturally, finds herself off on a voyage of self-discovery. Then a friend wins a pair of tickets to Greece for a two-week vacation and asks Shirley to join her. ... Full Review

When her friend Jane (Alison Steadman) wins a two-week Greek vacation, she invites her to share the trip, a proposal that takes all the timorous Shirley's resolve. Shirley is Alice Kramden in a good mood ... Full Review

"SHIRLEY VALENTINE" is an uncommonly warm, relaxed little movie, the kind they call a "feel-good film," but without a cloying artificially-sweetened aftertaste. And her confidential tone is winning -- when Shirley drops one of her wisecracks (which are actually wise, more often than not), it feels personal. ... Full Review

Shirley's melancholy is leavened by her biting wit, and she often blurts out barbed analogies that must have gone over big on stage When her friend Jane (Alison Steadman) wins a trip for two to Greece, Shirley makes what for her is a gigantic decision to tag along despite the complaints of everyone around her. ... Full Review

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After just three years of marriage, June, a 43-year-old trainee solicitor, had an affair with a Greek waiter several years her junior whom she met on a girls' holiday abroad. ... Full Article

Yanick Macdonald Nicola Cavendish as Shirley Valenine, everyone's favourite Liverpudlian housewife. Nicola Cavendish, playing the one and only role in Shirley Valentine , brings down the house with her description of marriage: "It's like the Middle East, isn't it? ... Full Article

Written Willy Russell. Directed by Roy Surette. Featuring Nicola Cavendish. Presented by the Canadian Stage Company and the Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal. To Apr 18. ... Full Article

By Willy Russell. Directed by Roy Surette. Until April 18 at the Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E. 416-368-3110 It's a rare experience to meet an old friend after 15 years, only to discover someone who's grown warmer, wiser... ... Full Article