Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw ( Pauline Collins) is a 42 year old Liverpudlian housewife whose family pays her so little attention she frequently talks to her kitchen walls in order to keep a conversation going. When her flamboyant friend Jane ( Alison Steadman) wins a trip for two to Greece, Shirley uncharacteristically puts herself first and accepts her invitation to join her.
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