The Dresser
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United Kingdom · 1983
Rated PG · 1h 58m
Director Peter Yates
Starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Genre Drama
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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.
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