The Dresser (1983)
1h 58min
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What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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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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Directed by: Peter Yates, Kelvin Pike
Produced by: Nigel Wooll, Peter Yates, Ronald Harwood
Composed by: James Horner
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