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Film stars don't die in Liverpool / a Sony Pictures Classics Release ; IM Global presents, in association with Lionsgate UK ; an EON Productions film ; in association with Synchronistic Pictures ; a Paul McGuigan film ; screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh ; produced by Barbara Broccoli and Colin Vaines ; directed by Paul McGuigan.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 52965 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment3898361 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | (disc)Language: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Turner, Peter, 1952- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Editor, Nick Emerson ; director of photography, Urszula Pontikos ; music, J. Ralph.
Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave.Summary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in Turner's working class family home.
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On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in Turner's working class family home.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic wide screen (2.39.1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.

English or Spanish dialogue; English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); audio description track.

Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave.

Editor, Nick Emerson ; director of photography, Urszula Pontikos ; music, J. Ralph.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2017.

Based on the book Film stars don't die in Liverpool / by Peter Turner.

Anamorphic wide screen (2.39:1).

MPAA rating: R; for language, some sexual content and brief nudity CHV rating: 14A; for coarse language, sexual content.

On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need. Takes place over the course of three weeks in Turner's working class family home.

Special features: Audio commentary with producer Barbara Broccoli, director Paul McGuigan and actor/author Peter Turner; Annette Bening on Gloria Grahame; "You shouldn't look at me that way" music video by Elvis Costello; Elvis Costello performance & conversation; Q&A featuring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Paul McGuigan & Peter Turner; making the music video: "You shouldn't look at me that way".

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