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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.
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
9 December 1934, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
13 June 1949, London, England, UK
14 June 1949, Cape Town, South Africa
December1964, England, UK
18 March 1947, Wiltshire, England, UK
10 February 1970, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
19 August 1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
June 28, 1935 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
1963, Lambeth, London, England, UK
27 September 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 March 1947, England, UK
9 January 1956, Archway, London, England, UK
1969, Pancras, London, England, UK
16 January 1954, Tywyn, Merionethshire, North Wales, UK
9 June 1948, Hackney, London, England, UK
3 March 1975, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
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.
March 17, 2015
All these funny, frenetic performances make for an enjoyable romp.
March 17, 2015
[A] cheeky, delightfully playful romantic comedy.
June 16, 2016
The play within the movie rings false, methinks
February 16, 2016
There is plenty to be thrilled about.
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.
February 22, 2016
A sprightly valentine to the heady world of comedy, drama, romance, art, commerce and language that is the theater.
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.
February 11, 2014
A triumph of talent and style over silliness.
February 11, 2014
Hilarious, sexy, clever, playful and as initially teasing as it is ultimately satisfying.
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
[An] inordinately clever, sprightly romantic comedy.
