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Shakespeare in Love
The film depicts an imaginary love affair involving Viola de Lesseps and playwright William Shakespeare, which inspires him to write one of his most famous plays: Romeo and Juliet.
3 March 1975, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
9 December 1934, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
22 November 1968, Gibraltar, UK
10 February 1970, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
1963, Lambeth, London, England, UK
1969, Pancras, London, England, UK
27 September 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 17, 2015
All these funny, frenetic performances make for an enjoyable romp.
February 11, 2014
Hilarious, sexy, clever, playful and as initially teasing as it is ultimately satisfying.
February 11, 2014
Scene after scene engages us as cheerful groundlings, tosses us jokes, toys with our expectations, then sweeps away the boundaries between film and stage, comedy and tragedy so we're open to the power of language and the feelings behind it.
March 17, 2015
[A] cheeky, delightfully playful romantic comedy.
February 22, 2016
There's so much to like about this film, which is giddily romantic, funny and clever, chock-full of Shakespearean touches like doomed love, mistaken identity and men dressing as women and women dressing as men.
February 22, 2016
A sprightly valentine to the heady world of comedy, drama, romance, art, commerce and language that is the theater.
February 11, 2014
[An] inordinately clever, sprightly romantic comedy.
February 16, 2016
There is plenty to be thrilled about.
February 11, 2014
It restores to centrality of consciousness one of the great geniuses of our civilization. It makes us care for his greatness, for his passion, for his worth. In no uncertain terms, it tells us Willie Boy is still here.
February 11, 2014
A triumph of talent and style over silliness.
March 17, 2015
Sometimes it's the small things that provide the biggest delights. That's certainly the case with Shakespeare in Love, a tongue-in-cheek romance about the greatest romance ever written.
June 16, 2016
The play within the movie rings false, methinks