The Dresser

Name: The Dresser
Genre: Drama
Released: 1983-12-06
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

PG 1983 1 h 58 min

Drama

68%

Audience score84 votes on TMDB

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“What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.”

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.

Director: Peter Yates
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
Music: James Horner
Status: Released
Release date: 06/12/1983
Original language: English