Much Ado About Nothing (Blu-ray) PG-13
Romance. Mischief. Seduction. Revenge. Remarkable.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 5, 2011
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington & Emma Thompson | |
Performer: | Kenneth Branagh, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Kate Beckinsale & Chris Barnes | |
Directed by | Kenneth Branagh |
Entertainment Reviews:
A spirited, winningly acted rendition of one of the Bard's most popular comedies.
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Variety
Continuously enjoyable from its action-filled opening to the dazzling final shot...
Variety
...[Branagh] has done it again....Triumphantly romantic, comic and, most surprising of all, emotionally alive...
New York Times
What a piece of work is this.
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Irish Times
...A delectable golden glow practically radiates from the screen....MUCH ADO shimmers...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: A- --
[Branagh] has found his way to the play's profound yet populist heart, rediscovering Shakespeare's vision of romantic fulfillment - celebration with an underlying tug of sadness - for an era that believes itself all too wise to the ways of love.
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Entertainment Weekly
Imaginative, intelligent, and brilliantly filmed, Branagh's Much Ado... is likely to make many people-especially the young-understand that Shakespeare can be vital, interesting, moving, and fun.
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The New York Review of Books
Product Description:
When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the Sicilian village of Messina, romance, gaiety, and suspicion abound. The men have returned safely from a war, and soon everyone in the sun-drenched villa is abuzz with thoughts of love. Claudio, enamored of the purity of the nubile Hero (Kate Beckinsale), entreats Don Pedro to woo the maiden on his behalf that evening at a masked ball. Once he's managed the successful betrothal of Hero to Claudio, Don Pedro has another plot in mind: he plans to trick Hero's bantering cousin Beatrice (Emma Thompson) and sworn bachelor Benedick into acknowledging they've fallen in love. Meanwhile, the villainous Don John, driven by contempt for his compatriots, has hatched a plot of his own: to fool Claudio and Don Pedro into believing Hero is unchaste. The plot works perfectly: sensitive but volatile Claudio denounces her publicly on their wedding day. All seems lost, and soon the attempts to set things right include a formal duel, a scheming friar, a mock memorial and a gaggle of bumbling constables. With its excellent cast and beautiful Tuscan backdrop, director Kenneth Branagh's film is a light-hearted adaptation of yet another of Shakespeare's great plays.
Keywords:
Rivalry
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Romance
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Stage Play
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Racy
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Deception
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Bucolic
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- Sales Rank: 50,363
- UPC: 883904233329
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