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The Dressmaker is a 1988 British drama film directed by Jim O'Brien and starring Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw and Pete Postlethwaite. It is an adaptation of the 1973 novel The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge.
Oct 26, 1989 · The Dressmaker: Directed by Jim O'Brien. With Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Jane Horrocks. In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jim O'Brien
- 1989-10-26
Dec 16, 1988 · “The Dressmaker” is about the intrusion of sexuality into a household built on a tacit, but finally murderous rejection of all sex.
The Dressmaker is a 1988 British drama film directed by Jim O'Brien and starring Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw and Pete Postlethwaite. It is an adaptation of the 1973 novel The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge.
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
- Jim O'brien
The Dressmaker (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Aug 3, 2015 · Liverpool, 1944. Nellie (Plowright), elderly dressmaker to her upper-working-class neighbourhood, has a scatty, sexually-active younger sister Margo (Whitelaw), and rules with a Victorian rod of...
