MOVIE COMPANY: Miramax
CAST: Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench and more.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by John Madden
WRITTEN BY: Marc Norman and John Stoppard
RATING: Rated R
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138097
TYPE OF MOVIE: Romance, Comedy
Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards – Including Best Picture – this witty, sexy smash features Oscar winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (Sliding Doors, A Perfect Murder) and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress), Geoffrey Rush (Best Actor – Shine) and Ben Affleck (Armageddon;Â Best Original Screenplay – Good Will Hunting)!
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) stars 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, she’s succesfully 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!
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Widescreen anamorphic format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I could find.
DVD REVIEW:
Back in high school, I played the part of Hamlet and since then I have had a passion for Shakespeare’s works. It’s been awhile since I delved into anything Shakespeare though and I was one of the few who refused to watch this movie because it was a comedy on Shakespeare’s works. I also thought it was going to be too long of a movie and blah…passed it up.
What do you know…the movie is out on DVD and thus I figured, what the hell. Don’t be daft and watch the movie.
So, I did and all I can say is “brilliant!”
It’s a great movie and I can’t believe I passed this up in the theaters. I loved the movie and it’s a very good story. Of course, you have to have an open mind and also to be able to enjoy things that aren’t modern. Some people love modern things and refuse to watch things that are depicting things from the past. Watch this movie because the acting is brilliant. To remember so many lines, I have to give Paltrow my honor for such a difficult role. Bravo!
But this is a DVD review. Not a film review. Buena Vista/Disney has always done a disservice to DVD watchers by not including extras and if so, just one or two. This one they included the theatrical trailer and yes, it’s in 5.1 and anamorphic and so forth but that was it. Ahh..the horror! There are rumors for a special edition release of this movie. There must be! How can they release a movie with hardly anything on the DVD, if I wanted to watch just the movie, would I not just get the VHS. Since this is mostly dialogue, you will not hear much of the 5.1 to begin with. At least it had information on the actors and Shakespeare.
Anyway, brilliant film. Good DVD but no extra’s moves the rating down a bit.
THE MOVIE:Â A+
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â C-
THE DVD OVERALL:Â B+