movie poster for DANCE WITH A STRANGER

Flicks ID

695

Cert

15

Running time

108 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

DANCE WITH A STRANGER (1985)

MIKE NEWELL

Plot

One of the best films to come out of the British cinema for a long time. The story of the peroxided bar girl Ruth Ellis, who murdered her upper class lover and became the last woman to be hanged in the UK. A study not just of her personality and the tragic love affair which ended in this crime of passion, but of the seedy mood of repression and austerity in class ridden 50s Britain. Miranda Richardson is outstanding in this compelling movie.