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It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench . The film depicts a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet.
The movie, which satirizes theatre life and plays with what is known and what is unknown about Shakespeare’s life and times, won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best film as well as the Golden Globe Award for best comedy or musical.
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Jan 8, 1999 · Shakespeare in Love: Directed by John Madden. With Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Steven O'Donnell, Tim McMullan. The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- John Madden
- 1999-01-08
Synopsis. William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a poor playwright for Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of The Rose Theatre, in 1593 London. After learning that his love was cheating on him with his patron, Shakespeare burns his new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter, rewriting it as the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
3 days ago · The cast of the movie includes Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare, Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps, Geoffrey Rush as Philip Henslowe, Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Fennyman, Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth, Imelda Staunton as Nurse, Colin Firth as Lord Wessex, Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn, Simon Callow as Tilney, Steven Beard as Makepeace, Jim Carter as ...
We're backstage of the Rose, an Elizabethan theater, and there's more drama backstage than there is onstage. The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, is being tortured by his financier, Mr. Hugh Fennyman, who's lighting a fire under Henslowe's feet. Literally. Henslowe isn't good at managing money, but he swears he's good at managing talent.
