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The Dresser (1983)

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star 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.

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- Watch The Full Movie
Year
- 1983
Language
- English
Duration
- 118 mins
Director
- Peter Yates
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Genres
- Drama
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Michael L 10 Jan 2008

Outstanding! Saw it by accident the first time and fell in love with it, especially Tom Courtenay's performance.

Private U 18 Nov 2007

One of my top ten favorite movies. Brilliant performances by everyone in the cast.

Kim K 09 Apr 2008

How is it that I'd never heard of this movie before stumbling across it on Netflix? This is an amazing film, filled with real characters - they alternate between being sympathetic and being despicable, just like real people do.

Bubba M 02 Mar 2009

A touring Shakespearean company is focused on during the second World War featuring a neurotic and time worn star whose grip on reality fades with his faculties from day to day and his personal dresser who completely keeps his composure for him in the midst of grueling performance schedules. Faced with the reality that Hitler's invading forces are constantly flinging at England, 'Sir' valiantly struggles through Othello and King Lear in the midst of air raids and cast dissentions coupled with his own complete exhaustion. Some will confuse Sir's acute fatigue for 'scenery chewing'. An interesting study of the British theatre trade in its darkest hour. Wonderful interplay from Finney and Courtenay.

Emanuel Levy 08 Mar 2011

Superb, Oscar-nominated performannces by Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay make this play-to-screen melodrama about backstage theater life in WWII England quite enjoyable.