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My Week with Marilyn

  • 20112011
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  • 1h 39m
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Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
87K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,782
97
  • Director
    • Simon Curtis
  • Writers
    • Adrian Hodges(screenplay)
    • Colin Clark(books "My Week with Marilyn" and "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me")
  • Stars
    • Michelle Williams
    • Eddie Redmayne
    • Kenneth Branagh
Top credits
  • Director
    • Simon Curtis
  • Writers
    • Adrian Hodges(screenplay)
    • Colin Clark(books "My Week with Marilyn" and "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me")
  • Stars
    • Michelle Williams
    • Eddie Redmayne
    • Kenneth Branagh
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 246User reviews
    • 388Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
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    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 18 wins & 64 nominations total

    Videos5

    No. 1
    Trailer 2:02
    No. 1
    "Getaway"
    Clip 0:30
    "Getaway"
    "Vivien Visits the Set"
    Clip 0:44
    "Vivien Visits the Set"
    "Heatwave"
    Clip 0:36
    "Heatwave"
    "Bathtub"
    Clip 0:42
    "Bathtub"

    Photos216

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    Julia Ormond in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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    Judi Dench in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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    Dougray Scott and Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
    Dominic Cooper in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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    Top cast

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    Michelle Williams
    Michelle Williams
    • Marilyn Monroeas Marilyn Monroe
    Eddie Redmayne
    Eddie Redmayne
    • Colin Clarkas Colin Clark
    Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh
    • Sir Laurence Olivieras Sir Laurence Olivier
    Julia Ormond
    Julia Ormond
    • Vivien Leighas Vivien Leigh
    Pip Torrens
    Pip Torrens
    • Sir Kenneth Clarkas Sir Kenneth Clark
    Geraldine Somerville
    Geraldine Somerville
    • Lady Jane Clarkas Lady Jane Clark
    Michael Kitchen
    Michael Kitchen
    • Hugh Percevalas Hugh Perceval
    Miranda Raison
    Miranda Raison
    • Vanessaas Vanessa
    Karl Moffatt
    Karl Moffatt
    • Jack Cardiffas Jack Cardiff
    Simon Russell Beale
    Simon Russell Beale
    • Cotes-Preedyas Cotes-Preedy
    Toby Jones
    Toby Jones
    • Arthur Jacobsas Arthur Jacobs
    Robert Portal
    Robert Portal
    • David Ortonas David Orton
    Philip Jackson
    Philip Jackson
    • Roger Smithas Roger Smith
    Jim Carter
    Jim Carter
    • Barryas Barry
    Victor McGuire
    Victor McGuire
    • Andyas Andy
    Dougray Scott
    Dougray Scott
    • Arthur Milleras Arthur Miller
    Richard Attlee
    Richard Attlee
    • Reporter #1as Reporter #1
    Michael Hobbs
    Michael Hobbs
    • Reporter #2as Reporter #2
    • Director
      • Simon Curtis
    • Writers
      • Adrian Hodges(screenplay)
      • Colin Clark(books "My Week with Marilyn" and "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me")
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      According to executive producer and director Simon Curtis in his DVD commentary, Dame Judi Dench was unavailable for the principal photography period, and her role had to filmed about two weeks before the rest of the production. Throughout the movie, Dench and Michelle Williams are never seen in the same shot, including one in which Dench shakes hands with (seemingly) Williams' hand being extended from off-screen. Adam Recht's deft editing gives the illusion that Williams and Dench were being filmed at the same time.
    • Goofs
      A frustrated Olivier tells Colin that he should have cast Vivien to play Elsie instead of Marilyn. Marilyn bought the rights to "The Sleeping Prince" from its author Terence Rattigan, and hired Olivier, who agreed to co-produce the film, to direct; she could not be replaced.
    • Quotes

      Marilyn Monroe: Little girls should be told how pretty they are. They should grow up knowing how much their mother loves them.

    • Connections
      Featured in Maltin on Movies: The Muppets (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      When Love Goes Wrong (Nothin' Goes Right)
      Written by Harold Adamson and Hoagy Carmichael

      Performed by Michelle Williams

      Published by EMI First Catalog Inc., Peer Music (UK) Ltd (c/o Songs of Peer Ltd)

      Courtesy of The Weinstein Company

      Arranged and Produced by David Krane

    User reviews246

    Review
    Top review
    Stupid, false, and badly miscast
    This movie would have been better if they had made it about a fictional actress based on Monroe instead of about Monroe herself.

    The Goddess, filmed during Monroe's lifetime (around the time this movie is set, in fact) couldn't have used her name, and it's much the better for that constraint. The Goddess doesn't constantly force us to compare Kim Stanley's fantastic performance with the real Marilyn Monroe, because it doesn't constantly CALL her Marilyn Monroe. My Week with Marilyn doesn't give us that freedom, the freedom to appreciate Michelle Williams's performance on its own merits rather than as an impersonation of a much more charismatic and distinctive star than she is herself.

    Viewers more familiar with Williams than with Monroe can rave about this performance, because they're not comparing it to anything. To them, Monroe is just a dizzy blonde standing over a subway grate with her skirt billowing up around her, and Williams plays THAT role as well as anyone else could. But she can't for one second deceive anybody who has experienced Monroe (seeing her is only part of the delight) in more than one scene from one movie.

    Half of Monroe's power as a performer is in her face, one of the most beautiful and naturally expressive faces God ever made, and that's why NO actress can EVER successfully play her. No one else has that face.

    Using a fictitious name would also have relieved them of having to portray the insufferably shallow and narcissistic Laurence Olivier, the most overrated actor who ever lived. I realize that they based this movie on Colin Clark's highly dubious and self-aggrandizing "memoirs" of his brief contact with Monroe, and therefore had some justification for their choices, but that was a mistake.

    One of many mistakes. Worst: the stupid screenplay, which treated Clark's adolescent fantasy as truth and made it even more ludicrous than it already was. Second: the hackneyed direction that makes a story about interesting and real people seem as false as a soap opera. Third: the miscasting of every role in the movie.

    Although the most egregiously miscast are Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller, Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene, and plodding Julia Ormond as ethereal Vivien Leigh, NONE of the actors convincingly portray the real persons they are supposed to be. Even Judi Dench is maudlin and icky as the decidedly UN-maudlin and UN-icky Sybil Torndike. I suppose Branagh is sufficiently pretentious and boring as Olivier, but the movie would have been better without that character.

    The one good thing about this movie is that it calls attention to Marilyn Monroe. If it had motivated even one person who'd never done so to watch her movies, it would have been worthwhile.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 23, 2011 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Một Tuần Với Kiều Nữ
    • Filming locations
      • Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • The Weinstein Company
      • BBC Films
      • Lipsync Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • £6,400,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $14,600,347
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,750,507
      • Nov 27, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $35,057,696
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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