The Dressmaker (1988)

6.5	IMDB rating

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Joan Plowright
Nellie

Billie Whitelaw
Margo

Pete Postlethwaite
Jack

Jane Horrocks
Rita

Tim Ransom
Wesley

Rosemary Martin
Mrs. Manders

Tony Haygarth
Mr. Manders

Sam Douglas
Cpl. Zawadski

Written by

Beryl Bainbridge
novel

John McGrath
writer

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Siskel and Ebert 1989 Ratings (174 items)
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Description: This film features Joan Plowright as a prudish and angry dressmaker and Billie Whitelaw as her lusty sister who works in a munitions factory in Liverpool during 1944. Their contradictory views of life rage inside Rita (Jane Horrocks), their joyless 17-year-old niece who lives with them. When she falls in love with an American soldier from Mississippi, the emotions in their troubled family sizzle and swerve out of control. John McGrath has adapted Beryl Bainbrige’s 1973 novel for the screen with all of its dramatic dynamite intact. Jim O’Brien (“The Jewel in the Crown”) directs The Dressmaker and turns it into a riveting ... (more)

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