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One Night with the King
Hadassah, a young Jewish girl, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes.
1973, Jerusalem, Israel
24 June 1958, Compton, California, USA
10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
14 July 1969, Northport, Long Island, New York, USA
14 October 1970, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
2 August 1932, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
October 30, 2006
The performances are all solid, although the screenplay frequently bogs down with the complexity of palace intrigues and plots that could have been rendered more consumer-friendly.
October 13, 2006
In itself, it's a riveting story. Unfortunately, director Michael Sajbel has envisioned an overwrought Lifetime movie of the week, complete with an Esther who could be a cast member of Laguna Beach and a king notable only for his washboard abs.
October 13, 2006
Unfortunately [O'Toole and Sharif are] separated by five centuries, and never share a scene. For a movie with the most righteous of intentions, that's perhaps the most grievous moviemaking sins of all.
December 26, 2006
All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics.
February 13, 2007
The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.
March 01, 2007
Less a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands.
October 13, 2006
The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.
January 31, 2007
a welcome and honorable telling of the Purim story.
October 13, 2006
Esther's triumph isn't because of divine intervention. It's her humanity and bravery that make her a legend, and make that One Night worth remembering, 2,500 years later.
October 13, 2006
The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.
October 13, 2006
Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?
January 01, 2011
Brave heroine risks it all in biblical epic.