Strapless

1989 film

  • 14 May 1989 (1989-05-14) (Cannes Film Festival)
Running time
100 minutes[1]CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBox office$764,794

Strapless is a 1989 film written and directed by David Hare.

Plot summary

An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.[citation needed]

Cast

  • Blair Brown – Dr. Lillian Hempel
  • Bruno Ganz – Raymond Forbes
  • Bridget Fonda – Amy Hempel
  • Alan Howard – Mr. Cooper
  • Michael Gough – Douglas Brodie
  • Hugh Laurie – Colin
  • Dana Gillespie – Julie Kovago
  • Spencer Leigh – Hus
  • Alexandra Pigg - Helen

Release

After the film's May 1990 U.S. theatrical release, it was released on videocassette in the United States by RCA/Columbia and in Canada by Cineplex Odeon. In 2000, the film was released on DVD by Anchor Bay. The DVD has since been discontinued.

References

  1. ^ "Strapless - Official Site - Miramax". miramax.com. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

External links

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  • Strapless at Box Office Mojo
  • Strapless at Rotten Tomatoes
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Works by David Hare
Stage plays
Drama
  • Slag
  • Teeth 'n' Smiles
  • Plenty
  • Pravda
  • The Secret Rapture
  • Skylight
  • Amy's View
  • The Judas Kiss
  • My Zinc Bed
  • The Breath of Life
  • The Vertical Hour
  • Gethsemane
  • South Downs
  • The Moderate Soprano
Trilogy
Collaborations
  • Pravda
Adaptations
  • The Blue Room
Monologues
  • Via Dolorosa
  • Berlin
  • Wall
  • Beat the Devil
Verbatim theatre
TV, film
and radio
Writer
Adaptations
of own plays
  • Plenty (film)
  • The Secret Rapture (film)
  • My Zinc Bed (TV film)
New work
  • Damage (film)
  • The Hours (film)
  • The Corrections (film)
  • Murder in Samarkand (film / radio)
  • The Reader (film)
  • Denial (film)
  • Collateral (TV series)
  • The White Crow (film)
  • Roadkill (TV series)
Writer/director
Director


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