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The Dresser(1983)
Status: Released
Date: 1983-12-06
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79 Votes
Time: 1h 58m
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Dresser
Top 10 Billed Cast
Albert Finney
Sir
Tom Courtenay
Norman
Edward Fox
Oxenby
Zena Walker
Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins
Madge
Michael Gough
Frank Carrington
Cathryn Harrison
Irene
Betty Marsden
Violet Manning
Sheila Reid
Lydia Gibson
Lockwood West
Geoffrey Thornton
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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.
Release Date
1983-12-06
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6.772
Rating:
3.4 startsTagline
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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