Title: Shakespeare in Love
Format: Blu-ray
MPAA Rating: R
Directed by: John Madden
Written by: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench
Studio: Miramax, Lionsgate
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Review by: Bill Jones
It’s hard to look back more than a decade after the release of Shakespeare in Love and think it was truly deserving of its seven Academy Award wins. It is not a film that carries with it the air of a “great” film, nor does it feel like a classic these years later. Still, Shakespeare in Love in a heck of a lot of fun, telling the tale of a working William Shakespeare in Elizabethan England. He is a Shakespeare who finds himself falling in love with a woman he cannot have as he begins to write Romeo and Juliet. It is a mix of comedy and tragedy that expertly weaves together multiple storylines that cross between the film’s reality and Shakespeare’s fiction. (more…)
