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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, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 140495077X
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledJapaneseSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD03746D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 06, 2004
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 06, 1983
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of king lear. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 07/25/2006 Starring: Albert Finney Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Pg
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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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Always a theater-struck addict, I, sometime in the winter of 1981-1982, sat in a Broadway theater watching magic take place on stage. Outside it was wickedly cold, snowy, slushy, as I sat at a matinee performance with water slogging in my boots, watching a marvelous production of Ronald Harwood's "The Dresser" starring Tom Courtenay as Norman, the theater dresser for Sir, one of the famous actor-managers who toured the British provinces bringing Shakespeare to the hinterlands. Sir was probably modeled ... Read More
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This movie is a wonderful peek behind the scenes of a touring Shakespeare company in England during the early days of WWII. Albert Finney gives a grand performance as "Sir" the patriarch and star of the troupe and plays the part to the full grandeur of the old theatre. Tom Courtenay, in the title role, tends to Sir's every desire and demand. It seems a thankless job, but he knows his importance and does it out of love. Though his is an effeminate character, modern perceptions of 'gay' are kept out and ... Read More
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You will never find a cast better than this. I just love the theatre and this is a love letter to the theatre and the "show-must-go-on" kind of people that established theatre as the entertainment we need to remain civilized. Laugh easy Cry easy
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This is not a big spectacle type film; it is a small and personal film that makes a big impact because of the very, very strong performances it has holding it up. `The Dresser' is a superb example of the very fact that you don't need to do a whole lot when you do very little very well. Both Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay deliver knock out performances here, both of them pulling from within to deliver top notch emotionally invested portrayals of men defined and ultimately confined by their loyalties.
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[As a train is leaving a station]
Sir: Stop that train!
[The train stops at once]
This scene demonstrates the power of acting. Sir (Albert Finney), the head of a Shakespearean acting troupe in Britain, used the authority in his voice that comes from playing King Lear in 227 performances and various other kings and characters an equal number, to stop a train in its tracks. Norman (Tom Courtenay), Sir's dresser, had begged the conductor to wait for just a moment, and was told in no ... Read More
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