Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title, which follows middle aged Shirley Valentine in an unexpected discovery of herself, and rekindling of her childhood dreams and youthful love of life. Pauline Collins reprises the titular lead role as middle-aged housewife Shirley, which she had previously played in the stage production in London's West End and on Broadway, and Tom Conti plays Costas Dimitriades, the owner of a Greek tavern with whom she has a
The Lost Valentine White's performance receiving high praise. The film received a generally positive review from "US Magazine", who said it was "Supercorny, though White tugs the heart". The film was a huge success which not only won its time period in viewers (14.53 million, beating out Fox's second hour of coverage of the NFL Pro Bowl) but represented the most-watched Hallmark movie in four years (since the film "Valley of Light" aired in January 2007). The film won the Faith & Freedom Award for Television at the 2012 Movieguide Awards. The Lost Valentine The Lost Valentine is a 2011 Hallmark Hall of