Pygmalion

Pygmalion

8.5IMDb Score
Released:1983-12-31
Duration:109 min
Country:Canada
Director:Alan Cooke
Actors:Peter O'Toole, Shelagh McLeod, Nancy Kerr, Ron White, Margot Kidder
Production:Astral Media
Keywords:pygmalion

Overview:

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

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