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Shakespeare in Love[Widescreen AC3 Special] - DVD

SKU: 3801238 | Release Date: 12/7/1999

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1998
Length: 122 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Comedies
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Synopsis

William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of "The Rose," a theatre whose doors are about to be closed by sadistic creditors, but he's got a nasty case of writer's block. Shakespeare hasn't written a hit in years. In fact, he hasn't written much of anything recently. Thus, the Bard finds himself in quite a bind when Henslowe, desperate to stave off another round of hot-coals-to-feet application, stakes The Rose's solvency on Shakespeare's new comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." The problem is, "Romeo" is safely "locked away" in Shakespeare's head, which is to say that not a word of it is written. Meanwhile, the lovely Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) is an ardent theatre-goer -- scandalous for a woman of her breeding -- who especially admires Shakespeare's plays and, not incidentally, Bill himself. Alas, she's about to be sold as property into a loveless marriage by her mercenary father and shipped off to a Virginia tobacco plantation. But not before dressing up as a young man and winning the part of Romeo in the embryonic play. Shakespeare soon discovers the deception and goes along with it, using the blossoming love affair to ignite his muse. As William and Viola's romance grows in intensity and spirals towards its inevitable culmination, so, too, does the farcical comedy about Romeo and pirates transform into the timeless tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet. ~ Merle Bertrand, All Movie Guide

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Sound

Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel/stereo

Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Shakespeare in Love and on Film Television spots 1998 Academy Award-winning costumes John Madden commentary track Commentary track with cast & crew Deleted scenes Shakespeare facts Theatrical trailer French-language track

Series

Miramax Collector's Series

Chapters

Side #1 --
0. Chapter Selection
1. Program Start [:16]
2. Henslowe's Dilemma [:25]
3. Will [3:23]
4. Writer's Block [2:53]
5. The Chamberlain's Men [2:34]
6. Poetry, Adventure and Love [3:29]
7. It's a Mystery [:53]
8. Titles [2:08]
9. The De Lesseps House [2:32]
10. At First Sight [4:40]
11. Inspiration [3:37]
12. Arrangements [3:41]
13. How Do You Love Her [3:26]
14. Better Than a Play [3:39]
15. Reading Lines [4:20]
16. Good Title [3:40]
17. Her Majesty [5:27]
18. Writers' Quarrel [4:41]
19. Bad News [4:38]
20. To Church [3:51]
21. How Much I Loved You... [4:18]
22. The Final Draft [3:11]
23. Confrontation [3:16]
24. The Proposition [3:32]
25. Opening Night [2:38]
26. Juliet [5:36]
27. Star-Crossed Lovers [5:06]
28. Public Lewdness [4:13]
29. Lady Wessex [2:42]
30. Twelfth Night [6:57]
31. End Credits [:12]

Cast

Ben Affleck - Ned Alleyn
Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps
Jim Carter - Ralph Bashford
Martin Clunes - Richard Burbage
Judi Dench - Queen Elizabeth
Rupert Everett - Christopher Marlowe
Imelda Staunton - Nurse
Tom Wilkinson - Hugh Fennyman
Joseph Fiennes - William Shakespeare
Colin Firth - Lord Wessex
Simon Callow - Tilney, Master of the Revels
Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe
Judi Dench - Elizabeth I

Crew

Director: John Madden
Producer: Marc Norman
Screenwriter: Marc Norman
Costume Designer: Sandy Powell
Set Designer: Jill Quertier
Screenwriter: Tom Stoppard
Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Harvey Weinstein ,Edward Zwick
Sound/Sound Designer: Peter Glossop
Casting: Michelle Guish
First Assistant Director: Deborah Saban
Art Director: Mark Raggett
Composer (Music Score): Stephen Warbeck
Executive Producer: Julie Goldstein
Production Designer: Martin Childs
Cinematographer: Richard Greatrex
Producer: David Parfitt ,Donna Gigliotti
Editor: David Gamble
Associate Producer: Linda Bruce
Hair Styles: Lisa Westcott
Makeup: Lisa Westcott

Shakespeare in Love: AMG Review
Bruce Eder , AMG

In a decade in which Shakespearean subjects had become increasingly popular, John Madden's Shakespeare In Love ripped the envelope and then some. Madden's treatment of Marc Norman's and Tom Stoppard's screenplay reminded audiences that Shakespeare's plays were works of flesh and blood, and their playwright a living, breathing human being who faced practical problems and used his best creative impulses, sometimes on the spur of the moment, to solve them. Joseph Fiennes's Shakespeare is a realistically human portrayal, the jumping-off point for one of the more robustly believable movie depictions of Elizabethan life, true to history in large measure, yet not afraid to allow some laughter and incorporate a historical conceit or two in telling its story. The movie won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Gwyneth Paltrow as Best Actress, and Judi Dench in a brief but memorable turn as Queen Elizabeth, revealed to be as quirkily and dimensionally human as Shakespeare himself. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

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