| Dance with a Stranger | |
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| Directed by | Mike Newell |
| Produced by | Roger Randall-Cutler |
| Written by | Shelagh Delaney |
| Starring | Miranda Richardson Rupert Everett |
| Music by | Theme song by Mari Wilson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (UK) The Samuel Goldwyn Company (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 1 March 1985 (UK) |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British drama film, directed by Mike Newell. Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in the fifties, this moving biographical British film won critical acclaim, and brought particular notice to the careers of both Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney, author of A Taste of Honey, and her third major screenplay.
The theme song "Would You Dance With a Stranger" was performed by Mari Wilson, and provided her with a hit single in the same year.
Mike Newell won Award of the Youth at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival for Dance with a Stranger. Miranda Richardson won Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, while Ian Holm won Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1985 for this and other films.
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