My Week with Marilyn

About My Week with Marilyn

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe.

My Week with Marilyn (2011) is a romance film directed by Simon Curtis. Released in November 2011, it runs 99 minutes.

Its themes are filmmaking, movie business, countryside, and historical figure. The film began as a novel.

Michelle Williams stars as Marilyn Monroe, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, and Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene. The screenplay is by Adrian Hodges. Production companies include BBC Film, Lipsync Productions, and The Weinstein Company. It streams on Britbox Apple TV channel, fuboTV, and Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel in the United States.

Blonde, The Right Stuff, and Gods and Monsters make useful companions to My Week with Marilyn, all filed under 1950s, biography, and husband wife relationship. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 1,376 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.