- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 11, 2020 (5 years ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United States
- Production companies
- Killer Films · Los Angeles Media Fund
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
Shirley

Where to watch (United States)
Cast
Elisabeth MossShirley Jackson
Odessa YoungRose Nemser / Paula
Michael StuhlbargStanley Hyman
Logan LermanFred Nemser
Victoria PedrettiKatherine
Robert WuhlRandy Fisher
Paul O'BrienDean
Orlagh CassidyCaroline
Bisserat TseggaiPeggy
Allen McCulloughNorman
Tony MannaDrunken Fellow
Molly FaheyFaculty Wife
Edward O'BlenisRalph Ellison
Ryan SpahnDrunk Cad
Emily DeckerPrissy College Girl
Alexandria ShermanPaula
Ava LangfordRose's Friend
Thomas RacekParty Guest
Lexa HayesParty Goer
Crew
Levels
- Sex & Nudity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Violence
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Profanity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Algohol & Drugs
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Fright & Intensity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>
Reviews
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Elisabeth Moss or ‘Shirley’ - The Boston Globe In Josephine Decker’s fictionalized drama, author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) fights for dominance with her professor husband (Michael Stuhlbarg) whil...
Elisabeth Moss again outshines the movie as a troubled writer in ‘Shirley’ “Shirley” is a strange, gothic look at “The Haunting of Hill House” author Shirley Jackson.
Elisabeth Moss' Shirley Offers Subtle, Mesmerizing Madness: Review In Hulu's Shirley, Josephine Decker bends reality to explore femininity and artistic creation through the life of author Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Filmmaker Josephine Decker returns with a daring biopic of author Shirley Jackson, starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. Read the Empire review.
‘Shirley’: Film Review Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her academic husband in Josephine Decker's unusual biographical portrait, 'Shirley.'
Shirley is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of the famed Gothic writer – review Its director, Josephine Decker, is aiming for something far more ambitious than the traditional biopic
‘Shirley’ Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Shirley Jackson in a Feverish Psychodrama About Female Identity Sundance: Josephine Decker follows "Madeline's Madeline" with a thrillingly delirious film about Shirley Jackson's poisoned writing process.
"Shirley" Is 2020's Most Surprisingly Timely Movie "Shirley" fictionalizes the life of Shirley Jackson to explore femininity writ large. Starring Elisabeth Moss, it's now streaming on Hulu.
Review: 'Shirley,' with Elisabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson, is a cunning psychological brew Elisabeth Moss stars as writer Shirley Jackson with Michael Stuhlbarg and Odessa Young in Josephine Decker's ingenious anti-biopic "Shirley."
Shirley Josephine Decker’s stunning anti-biopic of author Shirley Jackson offers a treatise on female creativity and camaraderie.
Shirley movie review & film summary (2020) Moss and Stuhlberg, sharing long intense glares across the table as Fred and Rose chit-chat, seem, at times, like two trolls under a bridge, lying in wait fo...
'Shirley' Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Phenomenal In Josephine Decker's Stellar Portrait Of Shirley Jackson [Sundance 2020] - SlashFilm Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker's haunting Shirley.
Elisabeth Moss is magnificent in screw-loosening alt-biopic Shirley Elisabeth Moss is given a lot of rope, but doesn’t hang herself, in this alt-biopic about the American horror writer, Shirley Jackson. The latter used to r...
Biopic fails to capture author's boldness This well-meaning fictionalised portrait of horror writer Shirley Jackson, played by Elisabeth Moss, fails to live up to its subject.
'Shirley' Is an Unconventional Biopic About a Horror Master A new movie out on Hulu gives the writer Shirley Jackson the unsettling and incisive cinematic treatment she deserves.
Sundance Review: Shirley Finds Elisabeth Moss on a Literary Path of Liberation After getting attention on the festival circuit with her back-to-back first features Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch, director Josephine De...
'Shirley' Film Review: Elisabeth Moss Has Monstrous Presence in Unconventional Drama Director Josephine Decker uses a concoction of fact and magical realism in this bio-fiction about writer Shirley Jackson
The great writer of dread, Shirley Jackson, finally gets a movie that befits her legacy Elisabeth Moss stars in the eerie Shirley as a fictionalized version of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers — and it feels like a story Jackson wo...
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