Shirley Valentine

★★★★ ROMANTIC COMEDY⊲ Following their success with Educating Rita, director Lewis Gilbert and writer Willy Russell teamed up again for this film. Pauline Collins reprised the role she filled so successfully on stage and, inevitably, dominates the film. She plays a bored housewife who dreams of drinking ‘a glass of wine in a country where the grape is grown’ and eventually takes off for a Greek island, meeting bar owner Tom Conti. Dir: Lewis Gilbert 1989, 15, 60min