Getting It Right (film)

Getting It Right
Directed byRandal Kleiser
Written byElizabeth Jane Howard
Produced byJonathan D. Krane
Randal Kleiser
Starring
CinematographyClive Tickner
Edited byChris Kelly
Music byColin Towns
Distributed byM.C.E.G.
Release date
  • 5 May 1989 (1989-05-05)
Running time
102 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$960,385

Getting It Right is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter.[2] The tagline is: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally... Getting It Right."

Plot

The film concerns the late coming of age of protagonist Gavin Lamb (Birdsall), a painfully shy 31-year-old virgin still living at home with his parents and who works as a hairdresser in a West End salon. The socially awkward Gavin forges sudden romantic connections with three very different women: a sultry millionairess (Redgrave), an idiosyncratic recluse (Bonham Carter), and a single mother (Horrocks) who is a junior hairdresser at his salon.[3][4]

Cast

Theme

The film's theme song, also titled "Getting it Right", was sung by Dusty Springfield.[5][6]

Box office

It made £88,787 in the UK.[7]

References

  1. ^ AllMovie
  2. ^ Canby, Vincent (5 May 1989). "Getting It Right (1989) Review/Film; An Innocent's Journey on the Rocky Road to Miss Right". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Roger Ebert
  4. ^ `GETTING IT RIGHT` A SKILLFULLY DIRECTED, GENEROUS FILM - Chicago Tribune
  5. ^ "Getting It Right (1989) Production Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
  6. ^ Getting It Right by Dusty Springfield - Topic on YouTube
  7. ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 23.