The Dresser

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

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7.6/10

Movie Details

Title
The Dresser
Overview
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.
Runtime
1 h 58 min
Release Date
6 December 1983
Actors
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, Edward Fox, Cathryn Harrison, Ann Way, Kathy Staff
Certification
PG
Genres
Drama
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