[2] The film stars Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Mona Washbourne and Alec McCowen.

The film is about the life of British poet Stevie Smith and centres on Smith's relationship with her aunt, with whom she lived for many years in a house in Palmers Green, London.

After The Samuel Goldwyn Company acquired the distribution rights from First Artists, the film was released in New York City on 19 June 1981.

[...] She does what great actors can do: She takes a character who might seem uninteresting, and makes us care deeply about the uneventful days of her life.

"[5] Linda Deutsch, writing for the Associated Press, stated: "Stevie is a rare, exquisite little movie which grows in stature as it lingers in memory", and continued, "Glenda Jackson, in another of those amazing portrayals which make her an actress beyond compare, turns Stevie's rather humdrum existence into a dazzling study of love, anguish and small savored moments of joy.