What is Shirley Valentine (movie)?
{{About|the film|the play|Shirley Valentine}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox movie | name = Shirley Valentine | director = [[Lewis Gilbert]] | producer = Lewis Gilbert | screenplay = [[Willy Russell]] | based_on = {{based on|''[[Shirley Valentine]]'' (play)|Willy Russell}} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Pauline Collins]] * [[Tom Conti]] }} | music = [[Marvin Hamlisch]] | cinematography = [[Alan Hume]] | editing = [[Lesley Walker]] | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|df=y|1989|08|30|US|1989|10|27|UK}} | runtime = 108 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | gross = $6,353,913 }} {{italic title}} '''''Shirley Valentine''''' is a 1989 [[United Kingdom|British]] romantic [[comedy]]-[[drama movie|movie]]. It stars [[Pauline Collins]]. [[Tom Conti]] plays her lover. [[Bernard Hill]] plays her husband. [[Alison Steadman]] plays her friend. It is about a [[Liverpool]] [[housewife]] whose family gives her too little attention. She travels to [[Greece]] and has an affair with a local man. The screenplay is by [[Willy Russell]]. It is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title. This movie was released in August 1989 in the [[United States]]. The [[review]]s for ''Shirley Valentine'' were mixed. The movie received several awards and was nominated for some [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] and [[Academy Award]]s. ==Main cast {{small|(in credits order)}}== * [[Pauline Collins]] as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw * [[Tom Conti]] as Costas Dimitriades * [[Julia McKenzie]] as Gillian * [[Alison Steadman]] as Jane * [[Joanna Lumley]] as Marjorie Majors * [[Sylvia Syms]] as Headmistress * [[Bernard Hill]] as Joe Bradshaw * [[George Costigan]] as Dougie * [[Anna Keaveney]] as Jeanette * [[Tracie Bennett]] as Millandra Bradshaw * Ken Sharrock as Sydney * Karen Craig as Thelma * Gareth Jefferson as Brian * [[Gillian Kearney]] as young Shirley * Ca