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Film · 1998 · Romantic comedy
Shakespeare in Love
Directed by John Madden
1998
United Kingdom
★ 3.7 editorial score
Tom Stoppard rewrote the script and you can hear him in every scene: a blocked Shakespeare finds his Juliet, and nothing else is this funny about how theater actually gets made.
“You can't miss with a movie that speaks the language of love with such hotblooded delight...Brush up your Shakespeare and you'll enjoy the jokes even more, but the film is at its most touching when this group of oddballs puts on the first performance of Romeo and Juliet in the presence of the queen and everything goes wonderfully right.”
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