Mrs. Henderson Presents is a 2005 British comedy drama film helmed by Stephen Frears. The movie follows a wealthy widow, Mrs. Laura Henderson, in post-war London. Bored and restless, she seeks a new ...

London, 1937. Mrs Laura Henderson, a woman of wealth and connections, has just buried her beloved husband. And now she's bored. At 69, she is far too energetic and vital to fade into gentle widowhood.

"Mrs. Henderson Presents" could have been great if its script and direction were as strong as its two excellent leads, Bob Hoskins and Dame Judi Dench, who got an Academy Award nomination for the role ...

The fifth annual High Falls Film Festival, held in Rochester, N.Y., has announced its 2005 lineup. The festival, which focuses on the achievements of women working in film and video, will feature over ...

One of the occupational hazards of film criticism is that the reviewer risks forgetting the art of watching movies for its own sake, to see them in the manner the filmmakers intended audiences to see ...

Casting has been announced for the West End production of Mrs Henderson Presents which opens at the Noel Coward Theatre in February. The cast will be completed by Sarah Bakker, Andrew Bryant, Rhiannon ...

LONDON -- Judi Dench can do regal. She can do imperious. She can do a touch of mischief. She does all three in "Mrs. Henderson Presents," the fact-based story of a wealthy English widow who brought ...

As the bombs fell over London during the Second World War only one theatre remained standing. The Windmill Club, alone in the theatrical establishment, kept the British morale (ahem) 'up' with its ...

In pre-World War II London, Mr. Henderson dies leaving his wife a large fortune and all the time in the world to spend it. In order to overcome her grief, Mrs Henderson, who has never worked a day in ...

An unassuming backstage yarn, Mrs. Henderson Presents overcomes several obstacles—not the least of which are its torpid title and inevitable comparisons to Topsy-Turvy—to win our jaded hearts with its ...

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