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Dance With a Stranger
- Original title
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Dance With a Stranger
- Year
- 1985
- Running time
- 102 min.
- Country
 United Kingdom- Director
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Mike Newell
- Screenwriter
Shelagh Delaney - Music
Richard Hartley - Cinematography
Peter Hannan - Cast
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Miranda Richardson,
Rupert Everett,
Ian Holm,
Matthew Carroll,
Tom Chadbon,
Jane Bertish,
David Troughton,
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
- Producer
Film Four International / First Film Company / Goldcrest Films International / National Film Finance Corporation / National Film Development Fund / Shooting Lodge - Genre
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Drama | Based On A True Story. 1950s
- Synopsis / Plot
- On July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in England. With a smart, tough little script by Shelagh Delaney, Mike Newell's noir-ish film is a dissection of the human frustration and complex class issues surrounding her crime. Miranda Richardson, looking like some delicious, chilled confection, plays Ellis, the hostess to a "glorified brothel" who plans for a better life with her young son until she meets David Blakely (a young, gorgeous Rupert Everett), the wealthy ne'er-do-well whose fitful attentions chip away her armor. Their vicious attraction and its constant tug-of-war lose some dramatic pull as the story heads toward its inevitable climax, but Richardson's performance holds your attention. She plays the entire film in a kind of stunned ardor, a feisty little animal caught in the headlights of Everett's sullen magnetism. By the time she's plugging bullets into his body, she's already hit you a few time with her heated, fatal despair.
- Awards
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1985: Cannes Film Festival: Award of the Youth
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