Getting It Right (film)

Getting It Right is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter.^[2] The tagline is: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally... Getting It Right."

Getting It Right
Directed by	Randal Kleiser
Written by	Elizabeth Jane Howard
Produced by	Jonathan D. Krane Randal Kleiser
Starring	Jesse Birdsall Helena Bonham Carter Peter Cook John Gielgud Jane Horrocks Lynn Redgrave
Cinematography	Clive Tickner
Edited by	Chris Kelly
Music by	Colin Towns
Distributed by	M.C.E.G.
Release date	5 May 1989 (1989-05-05)
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States[1]
Language	English
Box office	$960,385

Plot

The film concerns the late coming of age of protagonist Gavin Lamb (Birdsall), a painfully shy 31-year-old virgin still living at home with his parents and who works as a hairdresser in a West End salon. The socially awkward Gavin forges sudden romantic connections with three very different women: a sultry millionairess (Redgrave), an idiosyncratic recluse (Bonham Carter), and a single mother (Horrocks) who is a junior hairdresser at his salon.^[3][4]

Cast

• Jesse Birdsall as Gavin Lamb
• Jane Horrocks as Jenny
• Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Minerva Munday
• Pat Heywood as Mrs. Lamb
• Bryan Pringle as Mr. Lamb
• Lynn Redgrave as Joan
• Richard Huw as Harry
• John Gielgud as Sir Gordon Munday
• Judy Parfitt as Lady Stella Munday
• Peter Cook as Mr. Adrian
• Shirley Anne Field as Anne
• Ian Redford as Bill
• Kevin Drinkwater as Winthrop
• Rupert Holliday-Evans as Peter
• June Ellis as Mrs. Wagstaffe

Theme

The film's theme song, also titled "Getting it Right", was sung by Dusty Springfield.^[5][6]

Box office

It made £88,787 in the UK.^[7]