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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Edward Zwick, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Roger Frost, Harvey Weinstein, Joseph Fiennes, Nicholas le Prevost, Rupert Farley, Steven O'Donnell, Tim McMullen, Marc Norman, Ben Affleck, Gregor Truter, Lucy Speed, Arthur Wooster, Geoffrey Rush, John Madden, Joe Roberts, Imelda Staunton, Paul Bigley, Daniel Brocklebank, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Jim Carter, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Desmond McNamara, Jill Baker, David Parfitt, Takashi, Barnaby Kay, Roger Morlidge, Boiler Room, Bob Barrett, Antony Sher, Bridget McConnel, Martin Clunes, Donna Gigliotti, Gwyneth Paltrow See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards(R) -- including Best Picture -- this witty, sexy smash features Oscar(R)-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (SLIDING DOORS, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award-winners Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress), Geoffrey Rush (Best Actor -- SHINE), and Ben Affleck (GOOD WILL HUNTING, PEARL HARBOR). When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes -- ELIZABETH) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, but she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! A truly can't-miss motion picture event with outstanding critical acclaim to match its impressive collection of major awards -- everyone will love this funny behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the greatest love story ever told!
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Item model number : 30055
- Director : John Madden, Arthur Wooster
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
- Release date : April 26, 2011
- Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Steven O'Donnell
- Producers : David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Marc Norman, Takashi
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B004SIP9U6
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #64,186 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #7,287 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2012I am a film buff in general. There are hundreds of movies that I have really enjoyed and seen multiple times over the years. I could probably easily list several hundred that I would claim as favorites. Two of my top favorites are Romeo And Juliet" and "West Side Story" When I was a young kid I fell in love with Natalie Wood in "West Side Story". When I was a high school senior, the Franco Zefferelli version of "Romeo and Juliet" was released and over the next several months I took everyone, girls I was dating, family, friends - anyone I could talk into going, I took them to see that film because I wanted to give everyone I knew the gift of falling in love with that film as I had. Back then, once a movie's run was over, it didn't come back out for years and there were no VHS tapes or DVDs so I actually bought a four album set of the complete audio soundtrack of the film and listened to it over and over. It was quite a source of amusement for my family.
So "Shakespeare In Love" was a perfect film for a more mature, grown up me thirty years plus after "Romeo And Juliet" It is so brilliantly written and the acting is superb. I think Mr Shakespeare would have been thrilled with this story of love and comedy. The artistic team does an incredible job of creating a world that seems so genuine and authentic. For me, I felt transported back to that time and place. It was probably as close as I'll ever get to having a sense of what those times and some of the people were actually like. And it's a riveting story with a first class cast. It's one of those few films where, toward the end, I started sneaking looks at my watch because I didn't want it to end. Definitely one of my top 5 or 10 all time favorites!
- Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013One of the reasons to love Shakespeare is a love for wordplay. Tom Stoppard is one of the best practitioners of wordplay in contemporary theater. Bringing both together in a comedic movie was a great idea.
The conceits that underlies Shakespeare in Love, is that Victorian England is much like today though perhaps with more mud, and that Shakespeare as a not yet recognized genius is poor, insecure, and dependent on the love of a woman for inspiration. Okay the writer specifies horny as another of young Shakespeare's defining characteristics.
The plot builds around Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) seeking the romantic inspiration that will allow him to convert Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter into what will become Romeo and Juliet. Inspiration comes in the form of the poetry and theater loving innocent Gwenyth Paltrow (Viola). Her desires, in no particular order, are to love Shakespeare's poetry, act in one of his plays and avoid the titled husband (Lord Wessex played by Colin Firth) who has been bought for her by her father.
This movie is built upon some of the best lines from Shakespeare, a variety of comic asides, word games and cross references. Lifting it above merely brilliant use of language is the fact that the supporting cast is superior. Cast members from the young Joe Roberts (the rat catching boy will become the playwright John Webster) to Dame Judy Dench, who will win an Academy award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth take turns commanding their respective scenes rather than merely supporting.
Shakespeare in Love is one of my all-time favorites. In fairness to those with young children and their own sensitivities there is perhaps a little more of Ms. Paltrow exposed than some viewers might approve. Other than this barest of cautions, this is an entertaining movie built on language, stage action, romance, comedy, and a bit with the dog.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024Great film
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2024Must see!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2015It would have 5 stars, but for Gwyneth Paltrow's bogus Brit-accent and phonier ingenue acting-- what does the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really know about Elizabethan England anyway! Or, real acting for that matter! What makes this film fun and worth watching are the supposed contexts for the origins of well-known lines from Shakespeare plays, e.g., "a plague on both your houses," the funny desperation of Joseph Fiennes as an ink-stained, love-struck younger Will, and the excellent supporting cast of British (Aussie) stalwarts including: Martin Clunes, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Carter, Imelda Staunton, Judi Dench (as a very short, aging Queen Elizabeth I), Tom Wilkinson as a brutish moneylender turned thespian, Simon Callow as the officious Master of the Revels, Anthony Sher as an astrologer cum psychologist, Ben Affleck, with a passable English accent as actor, Edward Alleyn, and a brief but winning cameo by Rupert Everett as Shakespeare's helpful rival, Kit Marlowe. Particularly fun are the little "inside jokes" salted throughout the screenplay, as when the young boy refused a role in the cast of "Romeo and Juliet" discloses that there is a female among the actors-- and the boy-- who likes blood and gore-- turns out to be John Webster, soon to be author of the blood-filled "The Duchess of Malfi."
- Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024love this movie!
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- Patricia KlassenReviewed in Canada on June 20, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Shakespeare in Love DVD
This is one of my favourite movies. Each time I watch, I see something I had missed before either in the dialogue, acting, costumes, sets, etc. Love it!!!❤️❤️❤️
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SalvoReviewed in Italy on December 7, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Film
Bellissimo
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Enric A CReviewed in Spain on February 4, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Gran film
La película es adorable, de mis favoritas de siempre. Había estado descatalogada pero por suerte la vuelven a tener. Llegó a tiempo y en buen estado.
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Abraham González ValdezReviewed in Mexico on February 28, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Perdonados serán unos, castigados otros; pues jamás hubo tan lamentable historia como la de Julieta y su Romeo.'
Excelente adaptación fantástica a los tiempos del Teatro Isabelino. Una historia desarrollada a la par de la creación del libreto de, quizá, la más famosa historia de amor de todos los tiempos. Sin esperar una película 100% histórica se puede apreciar como una excelente comedia romántica. Totalmente recomendada.
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かおりん*ともReviewed in Japan on March 17, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars 特典コメンタリーに ぜひ字幕を!!
監督、スタッフ・キャストの コメンタリー(音声解説)が 楽しみでしたが、日本語字幕が ありません。謎の多いシェークスピアの青年期を、「こんなことが あったかも・・」と 想像させてくれる楽しい作品です
ジュディデンチ・ジェフリーラッシュ・コリンファース・等々 極上の演劇を 満喫できました。もっと
深く 知りたいので、音声解説に ぜひ日本語字幕を付けて 再販して下さい
余談ですが、ケネスブラナーの「シェークスピアの庭」では、ジュディデンチが、アンハサウェイ役です。