Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

• Paramount Pictures
• Pauline Collins
• Tom Conti
• Julia McKenzie
• Alison Steadman
• Joanna Lumley
• Sylvia Syms
• Bernard Hill
• George Costigan