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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama
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Director:
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Stephen Frears
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Actors:
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Christopher Guest,
Thelma Barlow,
Anna Brewster,
Will Young,
Rosalind Halstead,
Sarah Solemani,
Thomas Allen,
Richard Syms,
Ralph Nossek,
Doraly Rosen,
Judi Dench,
Bob Hoskins,
Kelly Reilly,
Natalia Tena,
Camille O'Sullivan
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a piece of a untie end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill acting in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to net on at all. Although their idea of a non-suppress revue is at first a celebrity, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they account nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is credible to be experiencing something to articulate about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson ... is friends with him.
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Mrs Henderson Presents
Eyebrows are raised in the 1930s and 1940s when upper-class widow Mrs Henderson buys a theatre and finds ways of putting nudity onstage. Comedy-drama starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Will Young
The British have always had an uneasy relationship with nudity, being both simultaneously appalled, amused and fascinated by it, and it's this confusion that's at the heart of Mrs Henderson Presents. Based on the true story of the long-running Windmill Theatre in Soho, the story begins in 1937 with ageing upper class wife Mrs Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) burying her late husband, and suddenly finding herself a widow with a fortune to spend.
After a trip to France to visit the grave of her son, killed during the First World War, Mrs Henderson suddenly decide...
Mrs Henderson Presents
I watched this film on a cold May day with my two children aged 11 and 9.
We all thoroughly enjoyed it and it gave my children a slight insight into what life could have been like throughout the war.
Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins were outstanding and loveable characters.
For Will Youngs first film we thought he was extremely good.
Well worth watching.
Mrs Henderson Presents
Mike ClarkLaura Henderson goes way, way beyond where Florence ever has, though it doesn't do much to help Mrs. Henderson Presents. It says something that during a scene in which nude chorines are turned into a fleshy backdrop, you spend as much time looking at your watch as what's on screen.
The movie, based on a real London West End theater, suffers from a flatfooted script and lackluster direction by Stephen Frears, who can be first-rate (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity).
Henderson (Judi Dench) has been widowed by a domineering husband in the late 1930s and, wondering what to do, impulsively buys a theater ... and wonders what to do. Eventually forging an alliance with a stage revu pro (Bob Hoskins) who promises to deliver more drama, she eventually gets...
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