The Dresser
2015 · 109 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 3,116 VOTES · DIR. Richard Eyre
Overview
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
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00:01:07 MAN ON RADIO: German aircrafts carried out a number of attacks
00:04:29 Quite old, wearing bombazine under a tweed coat,
00:08:08 - I should have been more vigilant. -
00:12:20 Put me on the timpani, he did.
00:16:31 near Lowestoft.
00:21:18 - - Oh!
00:25:13 I'm an old man and you want to go on painting my face
00:29:14 98 short, actually, if you take the text as gospel.
00:33:54 - We have to sink our cheeks. - Yeah.
00:38:29 I still have the feeling.
00:42:49 You wanted to see me?
00:47:09 "Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester."
00:52:28 Your Ladyship, was I all right?
00:57:08 - - Let us withdraw, 'twill be a storm.
01:01:37 And if he was given to muttering, he'd have muttered.
01:05:29 Look at you. Lear's hovel is luxury compared to this.
01:10:31 - I liked America. - I hated the swines.
01:15:45 And I've kept them religiously.
01:22:25 You getting enough to eat?
01:26:24 why, then... she lives.
01:31:34 By Whom?
01:36:38 - Please, Mr. Oxenby. - Outmoded hypocrite.
01:41:52 Lives.
01:48:06 I had a friend...
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