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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301627023
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301627024
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: April 16, 1996
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 736
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1989
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Amazon.com:
British actress Pauline Collins repeats her stage success as the character Shirley Valentine, a married woman who decides in her middle years that she wants more out of life. Leaving her spouse behind, she heads to Greece, where she grows close to a low-key, local bloke (Tom Conti). Collins and director Lewis Gilbert (Educating Rita) choose to let the character, as she did in the play, speak directly to the audience at times, and the gamble works in terms of creating a gentle, intimate atmosphere. Conti is a bonus, a warm presence and funny to boot. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Shirley Vallentine
Shirley Valentine has enjoyed screen and stage success as the story of the ignored and unappreciated British housewife who finally has it up to here with her demanding husband and clueless daughter, secretly running off to Mykonos, one of the Greek Isles, for a change of emotional and attitudinal landscape. Once she ditches her self-absorbed female companion on the trip, Shirley settles into an unexpected romance with a cafe owner (Tom Conti) who reminds her just how lonely she's been. Her decision ... Read More
Rating: - Shirley Valentine DVD, used
DVD was in mint condition, came faster than I had anticipated and I am very pleased, as always, with Amazon! PS Great movie!
Rating: - favorite girlfriend movie
This is just a grand escape and my husband and I actually went to this very hotel just because of the movie. In fact we went twice and would go again. The movie is just a "grand upper" for women. Pauline Collins
is spectacular.
Rating: - Shirley is Lovely
This is one of the most wonderful stories of self actualization I have ever sen. It has humor, love, resentment, anger, regret, sadnesss, and finally redemption. Although many would consider this a "chick-flick", I think there is a lesson forus husbands too...keep the relationship alive and listen to your partener, she is far more complex than you realize. Relationships drift apart from lack of communication, so talk to eachother. That is the ultimate lesson of this heartwarming movie.
Rating: - .Women, listen up!
For women of all ages, but most certainly for middle-aged and above, who have been or are married. You know when you're reading a good book or talking to a good friend and they just "get" everything you're feeling? There's hardly a better moment than that. Shirley Valentine is a keeper movie to pass among female friends and family. Men can watch, of course, but they're not likely to "get" it. Love it, love it, love it.
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301627023
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301627024
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: April 16, 1996
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 736
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1989