Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
by John Madden
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Actor: Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Steven O'Donnell, Tom WilkinsonDirector: John Madden
Brand: PALTROW,GWYNETH
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: David Parfitt
Producer: Donna Gigliotti
Producer: Edward Zwick
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Writer: Marc Norman
Writer: Tom Stoppard
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Reviews of Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
DVD Review: Beautiful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this film for a Shakespeare class. It is a wonderful and funny love story. Excellent to view.DVD Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
Both the container and DVD were in perfect condition! The price was exceptional as well.DVD Review: Lovelier the second time around
Summary: 5 Stars
To my mind, what separates an excellent film from a good film is the bonus of being able to view it over and over again without it becoming stale. You continue to be entertained and find yourself discovering elements of the plot and aspects of the characters that you missed on previous viewings. Shakespeare in Love, with its clever plot and rich writing, meets that criterion. You have to keep your eyes and ears open to catch all the fun. Even background players in the street scenes shout out inside jokes, like lines from Shakespeare's plays. Anyone who enjoys Shakespeare will love this film.
Production values are excellent, scenery and costumes lush, sound and score fine. The cast is more than up to the task of creating Elizabethan England. You'll find Gwyneth Paltrow a wonder. What a delight to find a young American actress, aside from Meryl Streep, who can handle an English accent convincingly.
I rarely buy films on DVD, but I had to own this one.
DVD Review: Shakespeare in Love
Summary: 5 Stars
This was delivered in a good timely fashion. I enjoyed the movie. There was nothing wrong with it.DVD Review: SHAKESPEARE, HIMSELF, PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS FILM
Summary: 5 Stars
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is one of the very best films of the nineties. Gwyneth Paltrow ( in an Oscar-winning role ), and Joseph Fiennes ( in a part that should have, at the very least, garnered a nomination ) make wonderful, and exceptionally witty, star-crossed lovers, Geoffrey Rush is brilliant as the owner of the theater Shakespeare ( Fiennes ) has promised his unwritten play 'ETHEL THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER' to. The comical twists, and turns in this scrumptiously lavish production are as fickle, and fun-filled as anything in TWELFTH NIGHT ( one of my favorite plays by The Bard ). Dame Judi Dench is riotously regal as Elisabeth I.
This marvelous picture succeeds on many levels. As a comedy it is hilarious. As a character study it is fascinating. However, as a delectible, romance of moving, and enduring pathos it truly shines.
The sheer beauty of this film is beyond words.
Description of Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
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!One of the most endearing and intelligent romantic comedies of the '90s, the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love is filled with such good will, sunny romance, snappy one-liners, and devilish cleverness that it's absolutely irresistible. With tongue placed firmly in cheek, at its outset the film tracks young Will Shakespeare's overwrought battle with writer's block and the efforts of theater owner Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush, in rare form) to stage Will's latest comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. Jokey comedy, though, soon takes a backseat to ravishing romance when the beautiful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) disguises herself as a young man to wangle herself an audition in the all-male cast, and wins both the part of Romeo and, after much misunderstanding, the playwright's heart. Soon enough, Will's pirate comedy becomes the beautiful, tragic Romeo and Juliet, reflecting the agony and ecstasy of Will and Viola's romance--he's married and she's set to marry the slimy Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) in the near future.
The way that Oscar-winning screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard enfold their story within the parameters of Romeo and Juliet (and even Twelfth Night) is nothing short of brilliant--it would take a Shakespearean scholar to dissect the innumerable parallels, oft-quoted lines, plot developments, and thematic borrowings. And most amazingly, Norman and Stoppard haven't forgotten to entertain their audience in addition to riding a Shakespearean roller coaster, with director John Madden (Mrs. Brown) reigning in his huge ensemble with rollicking energy. Along the way there are small gems to be found, including Judi Dench's eight-minute, Oscar-winning turn as a truly regal Queen Elizabeth, but the key element of Shakespeare in Love's success rests on the milky-white shoulders of its two stars. Fiennes, inexplicably overlooked at Oscar time, is a dashing, heartfelt Will, and as for Best Actress winner Paltrow, well, nothing she'd done before could have prepared viewers for how amazing she is here. Breathtakingly beautiful, fiercely intelligent, strong-willed, and lovestruck--it's a performance worthy of Shakespeare in more ways than one. By the film's end, you'll be thoroughly won over--and brushing up your Shakespeare with newfound ardor. --Mark Englehart
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