The Dressmaker – 2015 Movie Starring Kate Winslet
Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
Produced by Sue Maslin
Screenplay by Jocelyn Moorhouse & P.J. Hogan
Based on the novel The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
Starring: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Caroline Goodall, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Genevieve Lemon, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Barry Otto and Sarah Snook.
Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past. Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy), but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in so doing gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
