Mrs. Henderson Presents
Movie · Comedy · Drama

From Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, My Beautiful Laundrette and High Fidelity) comes the remarkable true life story Mrs Henderson Presents, featuring the incomparable Dame Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. Set in pre-World War II London, Dench plays the eccentric society figure Laura Henderson who, at seventy years old, finds herself widowed and at loose ends. She decides to buy an abandoned Soho cinema and turns it into what would become the historic Windmill Theatre. Knowing nothing about theatre, she hires the irascible Vivian van Damm (Hoskins) to run it and comes up with an inspired idea to get audiences in: produce a nude revue. She sidesteps censorship laws by creating 'tableaux vivants' - permitting entirely nude girls on stage provided they didn't move a muscle. Penetrating, lively and invigorating, Mrs Henderson Presents is a love note to a famous London theatre, a homage to Britain's wartime experiences and an evocation of the great musicals that lit up the screen during the thirties and forties. Add a captivating duel played out by two of Britain's finest actors in Dench and Hoskins and you have an uplifting tale which lives long in the memory of audiences everywhere.

2005 · 1h 43m
  • 68%
  • 16+
Starring Dame Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young
Director Stephen Frears

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Cast & Crew

  • Dame Judi Dench
    Mrs. Laura Henderson
  • Bob Hoskins
    Vivian Van Damm
  • Will Young
    Bertie
  • Kelly Reilly
    Maureen
  • Thelma Barlow
    Lady Conway
  • Christopher Guest
    Lord Cromer
  • Rosalind Halstead
    Frances
  • Sarah Solemani
    Vera
  • Natalia Tena
    Peggy
  • D‌R
    Doraly Rosen
    Maggie
  • Toby Jones
    Gordon

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Mrs. Henderson Presents

Comedy

From Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, My Beautiful Laundrette and High Fidelity) comes the remarkable true life story Mrs Henderson Presents, featuring the incomparable Dame Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. Set in pre-World War II London, Dench plays the eccentric society figure Laura Henderson who, at seventy years old, finds herself widowed and at loose ends. She decides to buy an abandoned Soho cinema and turns it into what would become the historic Windmill Theatre. Knowing nothing about theatre, she hires the irascible Vivian van Damm (Hoskins) to run it and comes up with an inspired idea to get audiences in: produce a nude revue. She sidesteps censorship laws by creating 'tableaux vivants' - permitting entirely nude girls on stage provided they didn't move a muscle. Penetrating, lively and invigorating, Mrs Henderson Presents is a love note to a famous London theatre, a homage to Britain's wartime experiences and an evocation of the great musicals that lit up the screen during the thirties and forties. Add a captivating duel played out by two of Britain's finest actors in Dench and Hoskins and you have an uplifting tale which lives long in the memory of audiences everywhere.

16+

COMMON SENSE

An unexpectedly classy film. Not for kids.

68%

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.8
Reviews 142
Fresh 97
Rotten 45

Information

Studio
Lionsgate
Released
2005
Run Time
1 hr 43 min
Rated
R for nudity and brief language.
Regions of Origin
United States, United Kingdom
© 2004 Micro Fusion - 1 LLP. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (CC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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