Review – Mrs. Henderson Presents

Wealthy aristocrat and recent widow Henderson (Judi Dench) is lonely and bored. She buys a theater in London and hires an experienced producer (Bob Hoskins, who also has executive producer credit for this movie) to put on a musical variety show. The show succeeds at first but then slumps. Our heroine decides that the entertainment needs a boost in the form of nude models. That’s enough plot for half an hour or so, with maybe another fifteen minutes for resolving complications and tying up subplots. However, the production keeps going for double that length. For the most part this is an entertaining show. It just runs out of material before it runs out of film stock. Mildly amusing