FILM

The Dresser (1983)

Name: The Dresser
Director: Peter Yates
Genre: Drama
Released: 1983-12-06
Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

Film · 1983 · 118 min · PG · Drama

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.

Directed by Peter Yates

Starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison, Betty Marsden

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	6 December 1983
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	Not listed
First release anywhere	6 December 1983

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