Getting It Right (film)

1989 film by Randal Kleiser

  • Jesse Birdsall
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Peter Cook
  • John Gielgud
  • Jane Horrocks
  • Lynn Redgrave
CinematographyClive TicknerEdited byChris KellyMusic byColin TownsDistributed byM.C.E.G.
Release date
  • 5 May 1989 (1989-05-05)
Running time
102 minutesCountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[1]LanguageEnglishBox office$960,385

Getting It Right is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter.[2] The tagline is: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally... Getting It Right."

Synopsis

The film concerns the late coming of age of protagonist Gavin Lamb (Birdsall), a painfully shy 31-year-old virgin still living at home with his parents and who works as a hairdresser in a West End salon. The socially awkward Gavin forges sudden romantic connections with three very different women: a sultry millionairess (Redgrave), an idiosyncratic recluse (Bonham Carter), and a single mother (Horrocks) who is a junior hairdresser at his salon.[3][4]

Cast

  • Jesse Birdsall as Gavin Lamb
  • Jane Horrocks as Jenny
  • Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Minerva Munday
  • Pat Heywood as Mrs. Lamb
  • Bryan Pringle as Mr. Lamb
  • Lynn Redgrave as Joan
  • Richard Huw as Harry
  • John Gielgud as Sir Gordon Munday
  • Judy Parfitt as Lady Stella Munday
  • Peter Cook as Mr. Adrian
  • Shirley Anne Field as Anne
  • Ian Redford as Bill
  • Kevin Drinkwater as Winthrop
  • Rupert Holliday-Evans as Peter
  • June Ellis as Mrs. Wagstaffe

Theme

The film's theme song, also titled "Getting it Right", was sung by Dusty Springfield.[5][6]

Box office

It made £88,787 in the UK.[7]

References

  1. ^ AllMovie
  2. ^ Canby, Vincent (5 May 1989). "Getting It Right (1989) Review/Film; An Innocent's Journey on the Rocky Road to Miss Right". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Roger Ebert
  4. ^ `GETTING IT RIGHT` A SKILLFULLY DIRECTED, GENEROUS FILM - Chicago Tribune
  5. ^ "Getting It Right (1989) Production Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
  6. ^ Getting It Right by Dusty Springfield - Topic on YouTube
  7. ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 23.
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