Dance with a Stranger (1985)

Regisseur:

Mike Newell

Drehbuchautor:

Shelagh Delaney (writer)

Premierendatum:

9. August 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Biographie | Krimi | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely...

Plot Keywords:

London England | Single Mother | Engagement | 1950s | England

Filmpreise:

3 wins

Nutzerkommentare:

My son tells me birds eat twice their own weight every day.

Besetzung

Miranda Richardson	...	Ruth Ellis
Rupert Everett	...	David Blakeley
Ian Holm	...	Desmond Cussen
Stratford Johns	...	Morrie Conley
Joanne Whalley	...	Christine
Tom Chadbon	...	Anthony Findlater
Jane Bertish	...	Carole Findlater
David Troughton	...	Cliff Davis
Matthew Carroll	...	Andy
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
David Beale	...	Man in Little Club
Charon Bourke	...	Ballroom Singer
Charles Cork	...	Policeman #2
Patrick Field	...	Builder
Sallie Anne Field	...	Claudette
Ian Hurley	...	Policeman #1
Miki Iveria	...	Landlady
Michael Jenn	...	Wilf
Susan Kyd	...	Barbara
Lesley Manville	...	Maryanne
Tony Mathews	...	Customer 'Magdala'
Nicholas McArdle	...	Landlord (Country Pub)
Lizzie McKenzie	...	Woman
Paul Mooney	...	Clive Gunnell
Martin Murphy	...	Roy
Colin Rix	...	Landlord 'Magdala'
Alan Thompson	...	Ralph
Tracy-Louise Ward	...	Girl with David Blakely

Alternativ:

Dance with a Stranger - Geliebt bis in den Tod (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Geliebt bis in den Tod (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

102 Min | Argentina:106 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.66 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Drehorte:

Fingest, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Firma:

Channel Four Films

Dies und das:

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom.

Pannen:

Anachronismus: Ruth switches on a radio which begins to play immediately. In those times, vacuum-tube radios had to warm up for about 20 seconds.

Dialogzitate:

Anthony Findlater: She
[his wife]
Anthony Findlater: eats like a bird...
Ruth Ellis: Really? My son tells me birds eat twice their own weight every day.

My son tells me birds eat twice their own weight every day.

I have seen some bad films in my lifetime, but this film literally takes the cake. Right after watching this film I went over to my wife and asked her if she knew what the film I just watched was all about. She told me that she didn't see it, and I proceeded with a "Well, you probably know more than I." What a horrible film!!

I had no idea what was happening for any of this film. What was the relationship between Holm and Richardson all about? I thought that he was the father of her child, but then he isn't, but then maybe he is ... WE NEED SOME SORT OF CONSISTENCY HERE PEOPLE!!! I understand that this film has some respect to it because it was directed by Mike Newell (of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame), but this film really didn't make any sense to me. Now I watch movies very closely because I don't want to miss anything elaborate, but even if I watched this film for a second time I still think that I wouldn't catch half of it.

This was Richardson's worst role ever. She screamed most of her lines urging me to almost want to use the subtitles. Everett tries too hard to be the clichéd "uncatchable" male figure in this film, but I just didn't see him as the part. Holm, well, if I knew what Holm's role in this film was I would be a better person. It was almost as if he stumbled onto the set by accident and just started acting in some scenes with Richardson and Newell didn't want to take it out.

Nothing was coherent in this film. The acting was horrible, the story was boring, and there was no string tying this film together. Instead what you got was a 1000 piece puzzle where the pieces were all from other puzzles. Nothing seemed to match up. I understand that sometimes it is good to put into film some major events in our world's history, but I am not sure that the last few months of Ruth Ellis (the last woman hung in England) life was exactly what I needed to get through my life. This film was so bad that whenever my cat walked by the television his eyes would water and he would have to claw at his ears to make the vision and sound try to disappear.

I have never ... I mean never experienced a film like this. I am going to end this review now because it is giving me a headache just thinking about it. This film should definitely have a Mr. Yuck sticker on it prior to renting. Also, if you get a petition in the mail shortly, it is going to be from me asking to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and replace them with Dance with a Stranger. It would cause the same amount of damage ... PEEE-EW!! In the words of Jay Sherman ... the God, the man, the myth ... "IT STINKS".

Grade: * out of *****