Shirley
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Released
- 2020
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 2020
Storyline
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Top credits
Elisabeth Moss ā Shirley Jackson
Odessa Young ā Rose Nemser, Paula
Michael Stuhlbarg ā Stanley Hyman
Logan Lerman ā Fred Nemser
Did you know
ā¢ The missing Bennington College student referred to in the film was Paula Jean Welden who, while off campus, disappeared on December 1, 1946 while walking on Vermont's Long Trail hiking route.
ā¢ The film is set in about 1950, the year before Jackson's novel Hangsaman, which she is in the process of writing in the film, was published. Shirley had the first of her four children in 1945, but in the film no children are seen or referred to.
ā¢ Elisabeth Moss' co-star in "The Invisible Man", Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Victoria Pedretti in "Shirley" both starred as twins in the TV series "The Haunting of Hill House", an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson novel.