The Dresser

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Directed by

Peter Yates

Starring (View all)

Albert Finney
Sir

Tom Courtenay
Norman

Edward Fox
Oxenby

Zena Walker
Her Ladyship

Eileen Atkins
Madge

Michael Gough
Frank Carrington

Cathryn Harrison
Irene

Betty Marsden
Violet Manning

Written by

Ronald Harwood
(screenplay)

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Difficult Men & the Men Who Love Them

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moviebuff15

The late director of "The Dresser," it seems, has a great love of theater. He also appears to have an interest in Borderline Personalities. The movie has the amplified acting and general feel of a stage play, and provides us with one of the most annoying characters in some time- the peculiarly named Sir, played by the great British performer Albert Finney.

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An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Release date: 6 December 1983
UPC: 043396037465

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" In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand, the dresser, Norman, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support deteriorating star Sir as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis. The Dresser is a 1980 West End and Broadway play by Ronald Harwood, which tells the "