My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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84% of critics liked it
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72% of users liked it
(31,197 ratings)
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and… More In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn - this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work. -- (C) Weinstein
- Directed By
- Simon Curtis
- Written By
- Adrian Hodges, Colin Clark
- Genres
- Drama
- In Theaters
- Nov 23, 2011 Limited
- Studio
- The Weinstein Company
Critic Reviews
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
That's all familiar lore but, to his credit, director Simon Curtis lays out these separate ambitions and conflicting tensions with breezy dispatch in the early frames.
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Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer
'My Week with Marilyn': Minor film with major marketing campaign
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Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
A dubious idea done in by Adrian Hodges's shallow script and Simon Curtis's clumsy direction.
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
[Williams] floats through the movie, perfectly capturing Monroe's way of rhythmically whispering through a song, looking softly frightened when uncertain, and not strolling so much as delicately oozing across the floor.
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Curtis occasionally takes his characters out of Pinewood, but they're never really set free, either in physical or emotional terms.
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Cast
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Michelle Williams
as Marilyn Monroe
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Eddie Redmayne
as Colin Clark
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Kenneth Branagh
as Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Laurence Olivi...
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Dougray Scott
as Arthur Miller
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Julia Ormond
as Vivien Leigh
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Judi Dench
as Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike
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Dominic Cooper
as Milton Greene
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Emma Watson
as Lucy
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Toby Jones
as Arthur Jacobs
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Zoë Wanamaker
as Paula Strasberg
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Philip Jackson
as Roger Smith
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Geraldine Somerville
as Lady Jane Clark
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Derek Jacobi
as Sir Owen Morshead
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Simon Russell Beale
as Cotes- Preedy, Cotes-Preedy
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Pip Torrens
as Sir Kenneth Clark
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Michael Kitchen
as Hugh Perceval
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Miranda Raison
as Vanessa
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Karl Moffatt
as Jack Cardiff
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Robert Portal
as David Orton
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Jim Carter
as Barry
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Victor McGuire
as Andy
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Richard Attlee
as Reporter #1
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Michael Hobbs
as Reporter #2
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Brooks Livermore
as Reporter #3
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Rod O'Grady
as Reporter #4
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Richard Clifford
as Richard Wattis
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Gerard Horan
as Trevor
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Alex Lowe
as Denys Coop
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Georgie Glen
as Rosamund Greenwood
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Richard Shelton
as Waiter
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Peter Wight
as Lucy's Father
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Paul Herzberg
as Paul Hardwick
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James Clay
as Jeremy Spenser
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Jem Wall
as Spectator
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Ben Sando
as Schoolboy #1
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Josh Morris
as Schoolboy #2
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David Rintoul
as Dr. Connell
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Sean Vanderwilt
as Male Dancer #1
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Adam Perry
as Male Dancer #2
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Desmond McAleer
as Senior Policeman








