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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:89
Rotten:47
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins shine in this warm, witty period piece.
Theatrical Release:2005
Box Office: $10,965,943
Synopsis: A British director with an astoundingly eclectic body of work, Stephen Frears (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, HIGH FIDELITY) has never made the same film twice. With MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS, Frears has... [More]
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Judi Dench, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly
Director: Stephen Frears, Norma Heyman
Though slightly more grounded in reality than last year's Being Julia (also set in London, at the same time), dramatically speaking, this is a slender, underpopulated tale with minor personal intrigues and both sloppy and fluffy tableaux.
Wickedly funny.
Top CriticOne's left with the feeling that Frears, Dench and Hoskins are coasting here in a film whose occasional modest pleasures evaporate before the final credits begin to roll.
Although technically not a musical, Mrs. Henderson Presents is filled with musical numbers, some of them quite accomplished.
Top Critic... the picture is as tastefully pretty as its girls, and just as motionless.
Such an odd mixture of old-fashioned sentiment and bare skin that it's either the dirtiest clean movie or the cleanest dirty movie ever made.
Mrs. Henderson Presents does present opportunities for Dench to point her nose in the air. But then the film loses track of her character to an extent and begins concentrating on others that are less interesting.
Stephen Frears has accomplished the near impossible. He's made movie full of naked women that manages to be not the least bit titillating.
Director Stephen Frears usually excels at jumping genres, but fails to do so within a single film.
An opportunity missed for an entertainment of more substance, but Frears keeps it light and Dench keeps it afloat for a charming and stylish, if essentially forgettable, excursion into British nostalgia.
The diminished return of the English striptease comedies...neither swanky nor funny enough to entertain, and Sherman's shallow script never earns its melodramatic turns.
A sloppy vaudeville turn by those glorious troupers Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in what amounts to a silly orgy of nostalgic patriotism and the titillating naughtiness of stationary nudity.
Top CriticIt's a classy, laugh-out-loud crowd pleaser with dual tour-de-force performances by Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins.
This is a film whose strongest suit is its dialog and some charming characters. You could do much worse for a holiday season film.
A humorous, daft little film about a humorous, daft little lady.
Coming on the heels of Felicity Huffman’s Transamerica, this would seem to confirm that the Weinstein boys are officially back in business.
Dench and Hoskins bicker with an affectionate ferocity that helps defuse the story's inherent sentimentality, and the result is an admittedly minor, but authentic, holiday treat.
In the annals of no-sex-please Brit nudie revues, this Oscar hopeful falls between the The Full Monty's Rabelaisian stew and Calendar Girls' charming but thin broth.
Just because the film starts taking itself seriously doesn't mean you have to.
Subplots subbing for a story line is an effort with little payoff.
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