PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

pantages-1 This was such a revelation to me, I never knew Gloria Grahame even came to England. The actors all gave convincing performances in what is an intimate story. I loved the line which Peter gave when he said, 'I'm just a guy who can't say no' as it is a direct reference to the song which Gloria sang in 'Oklahoma!' - 'I'm just a girl who can't say no'! I will watch this again.

bkoganbing I remember the first time I saw Gloria Grahame on screen it was in the theater in Oklahoma where she played goodhearted good time girl Ado Annie. She played a lot of good time girls in more serious films as well. My best memories of her on the screen were in The Big Heat and Not As A Stranger. During her peak years in the Fifties Gloria Grahame got the first call when one had to cast a woman of easy virtue. She won an Oscar for The Bad And The Beautiful for a woman who is led astray. Usually Gloria did the leading.Annette Bening did a good job interpreting Gloria Grahame best as she could and she got it 3/4 right. There was only one Gloria and she was unqiue. This shows the sad last two years of her life when her career was pretty well over, but she had hopes of a comeback. She was living in the United Kingdom and hardly a big name any more.But whatever she had in the way of happiness came from a May/December romance with young actor Peter Turner played by Jamie Bell. It wasn't easy at times because Grahame still thought of herself as a big star. Lots of Norma Desmond in that woman.The two best scenes in the film are Gloria's meeting with her mother Vanessa Redgrave and a most jealous sister who tried and didn't have the career Gloria did. The classic has been versus a never was. The sister is played with real bite by Frances Barber. The second is Gloria with her doctor saying she had rejected chemotherapy because she was afraid of losing her hair and she wanted to be castable still. Offers were not really coming the late 70s.The ending is similar to Frances Farmer's end in Will There Ever Be A Morning, poignant and sad. Won't reveal, you have to see it and I defy anyone to have a dry eye.A great tribute to a great star.

DreamyOneNumber1 We loved Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. It's a movie that can be enjoyed more than once, and in fact, is even better the second time around. The script, adapted from actor Peter Turner's book, is based on the true story of the final days of Gloria Grahame. Directed like an old-time movie, Paul McGuigan brings to the screen excellent performances by all actors, with exceptional performances from Annette Bening (as usual) and Jamie Bell. This movie is best enjoyed without any preconceived notions, so I will not share anything near a spoiler. Needless to say, however, as most everyone who checks a rating on this movie already knows, a young Peter Turner fell in love with aging Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, but their time was sadly limited due to Gloria Grahame's cancer.For those who like to know the basis of what they're watching in advance of viewing a film, there is plenty of background information available. For my part, I watched the movie first, then did some research, and then watched it again. Armed with factual information, it was more meaningful seeing it again. While not for the very young, this is a movie most everyone else can enjoy. There's enough life lessons here to leave you thinking.

Chipper Xavier Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool (2017).Chipper F. Xavier, Esq.The premise: Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) & Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) fall in love. The catch: Peter's a 28 year-old Brit and Gloria is a much older American actress with four ex-husbands and four grown children. She's also a bit of a has-been: An Oscar winning, movie star icon from the days of black and white films. But by the end of this movie, you will believe in the power of their love for one another.Inspired by the autobiography of Peter Turner, Film Stars walks us through the whimsical meeting, courtship and relationship of Turner and Grahame from 1979 through 1981. Director Paul McGuigan sets his opening in Liverpool, England where the two first meet. Rather than romanticize the aged actress, Bening's Grahame is a gutsy dame, just barely held together by cosmetics, alcohol, wardrobe and slowly fading hauteur. Bell's Turner is an energetic young man who is enraptured with Grahame before he discovers her prior fame. The strength of Bell's performance lies in normalizing Turner's seemingly inexplicable attraction to a woman old enough to be his mother - their first kiss is as surprising as it is heart-warming. In this sense, the couple present an idealistic love which refuses to acknowledge its anachronistic nature.Film Stars goes well beyond the Hollywood romance tropes to present us with the unvarnished heart of humanity. Grahame's and Turner's families, performed by Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters, are skilfully woven into the tapestry of their relationship in a way that makes us see just how grounded in reality this movie is: Their problems are real, and seemingly insurmountable.The real feat of Film Stars is not in delivering Peter and Gloria's romance to the viewer, or even in presenting an oddity for the world to brazenly ogle, but in transporting the audience into their time and lives and making us wish that we could all be so fortunate to experience such a love, if only once, no matter what it cost us.