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Getting It Right (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Getting It Right' is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter. The tagline was: "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.[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/getting-it-right-1989 Roger Ebert][https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-19-8902020494-story.html `GETTING IT RIGHT` A SKILLFULLY DIRECTED, GENEROUS FILM - Chicago Tribune]
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.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43YbuxDuNQo Getting It Right by Dusty Springfield - Topic on YouTube]
Box office
It made 88,787 in the UK.
References
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