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Twelfth Night (1996)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:21
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Director Trevor Nunn makes some questionable choices, but his stellar cast -- which includes Helena Bonham-Carter, Ben Kingsley, and Nigel Hawthorne -- more than rises to the material.
Runtime: 2 hrs 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Trevor Nunn's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is... Trevor Nunn's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Nunn's film sets the play in the 19th Century and brings out both the ebullient and the melancholy aspects of Shakespeare's story. [More]
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Ben Kingsley, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard E. Grant
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Ben Kingsley, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Steven Mackintosh, Toby Stephens
Director: Trevor Nunn
Director: Trevor Nunn
Screenwriter: Trevor Nunn
Producer: Stephen Evans, David Parfitt
Composer: Shaun Davey
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Reviews for Twelfth Night
A handsome, agreeably performed rendition that fails to ignite much laughter or any real emotion.
Why Nunn chose to set this version in the 1890s is a little baffling.
Only fitfully do the actors actually seem to become the characters they are playing.
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