01) Reggie Conyngham-Jervis: [after being cut off in traffic]  May your balls wither and drop like rotten figs, my friend.

02) Reggie Conyngham-Jervis: You are a prissy little tight ass bastard aren't you, Southgate? Roy Southgate: If you say so, sir.

STORYLINE: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the same night. They become a companionable, if odd, couple until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.—IMDb by

Best Actor: Tom Courtenay

Best Single Drama: Jo Willett (producer), Paul Seed (Director), Andrew Davies (writer)

Best Editing (Fiction/Entertainment): Dave King

Best Original Television Music: Jim Parker

Best Actress: Joanna Lumley.

Best Sound (Fiction/Ent.): Jim Greenhorn. Colin Martin,  Richard Skelton

Wonderful (May 30 2002 by lorenellroy): The pairing of Courtenay and Finney, whose contrasting styles combine so well together, were brilliant in The Dresser, which makes their pairing in this drama so very welcome. They play contrasting men widowed on the same day and paired together by social services.Finney is a womanising ex=Battle of Britain pilot whose wife came from wealthy stock while Courteney is a former milkman. Courteney possesses all the requisite domestic skills while Finney would struggle to boil water without a recipe book. Against all odds and not helped by Finney's habit of assuming command they rub along well together until the arrival of Joanna Lumley a gold-digger who sets her sights on Finney. Beautifully written and impeccably played character study.It illustrates that dumbing down ,while having achieved epidemic proportions on UK television,has not yet conquered all bastions of the box.

An enriching experience (Jan 11, 2001 by Boris-34): I was tired and did not expect to stay with this movie, but thought I'd see how it began. The story and the absolutely wonderful performances by Finney and Courtenay kept me absorbed in it till it was all over. This quiet movie was, unexpectedly, to be one of my all-time favorites.

Worth Watching (June 22, 2017 by tibet10-1): You will enjoy this movie if you step back and watch it like a spoof put together by the actors themselves. Otherwise the story as portrayed in this production is just not logical. There are irritating loose ends and tangents that I found frustrating. However they are all great actors doing a fine job and if you take it as it comes and just accept it as a silly spoof then you will enjoy it. Why an otherwise sensible, financially independent, elderly widower, would move in with an old grumpy, ungrateful, insulting, rake is not well explained. If you are going to write a script at least give good solid logical reasons to support why a character follows a particular course of action.

The moment I gave up asking why so and so did such and such I began to enjoy the journey. A few drinks would also help. It is a silly movie that I ended up enjoying. Rosamund Pike - her movie debut - and some others appear for about half a second. One wonders why you would go to the trouble of assembling a cast of actors who may well spend three days on set only to be almost invisible in the final production. Even more outrageous is that very often, some bugger would have spent weeks mulling over who to cast in these invisible roles. We can only hope the invisible ones receive regular residuals! So grab a stiff drink, relax, throw logic out the window and watch this movie.