Budget (GBP) | 4,000,000 |
Distribution Company |
United Artists (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
Release Date | 18 September 1981 |
Black and White | No |
Regional Release | No |
Release Notes | Canada 18 September 1981 (Toronto); USA 18 September 1981 (New York City, New York) (premiere); USA 18 September 1981 (limited); UK 15 October 1981 (London); USA 16 October 1981; Italy 20 November 1981; Norway 1 December 1981; Australia 3 December 1981; Denmark 18 December 1981; Spain 18 December 1981; Portugal 25 December 1981; Finland 1 January 1982; Netherlands 28 January 1982; Ireland 29 January 1982; Japan February 1982; Argentina 11 February 1982; West Germany 11 March 1982; Greece 12 March 1982; Sweden 12 March 1982; France 17 March 1982; Uruguay 26 March 1982; Belgium 29 April 1982 (Gent); Mexico 17 December 1982; Hungary 20 October 1983; Greece 9 October 2003 (Panorama of European Cinema); Serbia 28 February 2005 (Belgrade Film Festival); Italy 17 October 2009 (Rome Film Festival). |
Description | Pinter adaptation of John Fowles' 1969 novel. The film intercuts the stories of two romantic affairs. One is within a Victorian period drama involving a gentleman palaeontologist, Charles Smithson, and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman." The other affair is between actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. In both segments, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the lead roles. |
Language | English |
No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.
Creative | Author (original novel)
Creative | Screenplay
Production | Producer
Production | Associate Producer
Production | Associate Producer
Creative | Music
Creative | Director Of Photography
Creative | Film Editor
Creative | Casting
Creative | Production Designer
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Art Director
Creative | Set Decoration
Creative | Costume Designer
Creative | Makeup Artist
Creative | Hairdresser
Production | Production Manager
Creative | Assistant Director
Creative | Second Assistant Director
Creative | Third Assistant Director
Creative | Third Assistant Director
Production | Property buyer
Technical | Props Master
Production | Property buyer
Creative | Artist
Technical | Construction manager
Technical | Plasterer
Technical | Standby Props
Creative | Assistant Art Director
Technical | Junior draughtsman
Technical | Sound Assistant
Technical | Sound Re-recordist
Technical | Sound Editor
Technical | Sound Recordist
Technical | Boom operator
Technical | Sound camera
Technical | Adr mixer
Technical | Special effects
Technical | Special effects
Technical | Special effects
Technical | Special effects
Creative | Sculptor
Technical | Special effects
Technical | Special Effects Technician
Technical | Optical cameraman
Technical | Clapper loader
Technical | Still Photographer
Technical | Grip
Technical | Camera operator
Technical | Gaffer
Technical | Focus puller
Technical | Electrician
Technical | Best boy
Technical | Wardrobe assistant
Technical | Wardrobe assistant
Technical | Wardrobe supervisor
Technical | Assistant to cotume designer
Technical | Assistant editor
Technical | Second assistant editor
Technical | Assistant editor
Technical | Location manager
Technical | Location manager
Technical | Location manager
Creative | Conductor
Creative | Music Arranger
Production | Music assistant
Technical | Transportation captain
Technical | Driver
Production | Production accountant
Production | Continuity
Creative | Title Designer
Production | Production Assistant
Production | Runner
Creative | Director
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Performer: Meryl Streep (1949)
Performer: Meryl Streep (1949)
Performer: Jeremy Irons (1948)
Performer: Jeremy Irons (1948)
Performer: Hilton McRae (1949)
Performer: Emily Morgan
Performer: Charlotte Mitchell
Performer: Lynsey Baxter (1959)
Performer: Peter Vaughn (1923 - 2016)
Performer: Colin Jeavons
Performer: Liz Smith
Performer: John Barrett
Performer: Leo McKern (1920 - 2002)
Performer: Edward Duke
Performer: Richard Griffiths
Performer: Michael Elwyn
Performer: Toni Palmer
Performer: David Warner
Performer: Alun Armstrong (1946)
Performer: Gerard Falconetti
Performer: Penelope Wilton (1946)
Performer: Orlando Fraser
Performer: Frederika Morton
Performer: Alice Maschler
Performer: Matthew Morton
Performer: Patience Collier
Performer: Vicky Ireland
Performer: Claire Travers-Deacon
Performer: Jean Faulds
Performer: Arabella Weir
Performer: Ben Forster
Performer: Catherine Willmer
Performer: Anthony Langdon
Performer: Graham Fletcher-Cook
Performer: Richard Hope
Performer: Cecily Hobbs
Performer: Doreen Mantle
Performer: Joanna Joseph
Performer: Judith Alderson
Performer: Cora Kinnaird
Performer: Michael Dickins
Performer: Peter Fraser
Performer: Janet Rawson
Performer: Georgina Hale
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Picture
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Art Direction
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Editing
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
1981
Nominated: Best Costume Design
British Academy Award
1981
Nominated: Original Film Music
Golden Globe
1981
Nominated: Best Screenplay-Motion Picture
Donatello Award (Italy)
1982
Won: Best Foreign Screenplay
Donatello Award (Italy)
1982
Nominated: Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Academy Award
1982
Nominated: Best Actress: Meryl Streep
British Academy Award
1981
Won: Best Actress: Meryl Streep
The iconic image of Anna at the end of the cobb in Lyme Regis harbour was used widely on publicity for the film.
Type: Review
Type: Article
Type: Trailer
External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_Pmrwq6Ik
Original trailer.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082416/
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Lieutenant%27s_Woman_(film)
URL
Film summary from this source.
Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
Academic book
Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.