A Liverpudlian housewife is trapped in a humdrum existence and a dull marriage. Fed up, she decides to go on an unheard-of holiday by herself to a Greek island, where she starts to enjoy life again - especially when she is romanced and seduced by a smooth-talking fisherman. Comedy, adapted from Willy Russell's stage play, starring Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Bernard Hill, Julia McKenzie and Alison Steadman.

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.