If the late Aaron Spelling had lived long enough to produce Showtime's The Tudors, the result might have been something like The Other Boleyn Girl...
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
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Reviews Counted:135
Fresh:56
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though it features some extravagant and entertaining moments, The Other Boleyn Girl feels more like a soap opera than historical drama.
Theatrical Release:Feb 29, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $26,814,957
Synopsis: Based on the best selling novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is an engrossing and sensual tale of intrigue, romance, and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in... [More]
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Reviews for The Other Boleyn Girl
A very entertaining and involving story of family and sacrifice.
07/22/08
The Other Boleyn Girl turns British history into a chick flick soaper with high production values and A-list actors.
03/01/08
It probably shouldn't be the way in which high-school kids learn about Henry VIII and his court, but it's a fun movie.
02/28/08
There are enough of these films now that you can stitch them all together and come away with a complete (if completely inaccurate) history of jolly old England.
02/29/08
Chest-heaving displays of humiliation and social positioning...Other Boleyn Girl isn't high art, but it's juicy; 2008's first guilty pleasure.
02/28/08
A cautionary tale of what unchecked ambition and lust can do to a person, a family, a nation.
03/03/08
What Boleyn Girl lacks in character development, it makes up in vigor, immediacy and intelligence.
02/29/08
The filmmakers deserve credit for being serious-minded, but they might have hinted at the top of the film that all would not be well in the end.
02/28/08
...a mix of history, lurid melodrama, sex, politics, and two top-notch actresses, making for a most entertaining brew.
02/29/08
And what of these young American actresses’ putting on British accents to vie for the king? They seem, at first, like coeds in a college production of The Importance of Being Earnest, but once the dislocation fades, their commitment wins you over.
02/25/08
Top CriticA highly absorbing rendition of an endlessly fascinating tale.
02/28/08
A sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.
02/19/08
The Other Boleyn Girl is the Tudors as a romantic, sexy soap opera. With its beautiful young cast, this adaptation of Philippa Gregory's best-selling potboiler is delicious fun.
02/28/08
Fascinating in its depiction of a troubled relationship between sisters that is anything but black and white. This emotionally ripe angle to a tragic story that could have been told any number of ways is where the film gets its potency.
02/28/08
Worthy of thine attention? Corset is.
03/07/08
It's a straightforward, unpretentious joy, and one of the most purely enjoyable films I've seen in some time.
02/28/08
This streamlined adaptation of Philippa Gregory's fanciful historical novel is fine fun.
02/29/08
Flamboyantly puts across the idea, Be careful what you wish for. Ambition, power and wealth are not what they are cracked up to be.
02/28/08
An entertainingly sudsy trip through early 16th century English history.
02/29/08
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August 23, 2008:
Iconoclast.com: An all in the dysfunctional family royal romp with incestuous tendencies, this richly textured, dramatically disciplined, erotically laced and emotionally taut creation makes for weirdly kinky historical analysis. 
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June 18, 2008:
An all in the dysfunctional family royal romp with incestuous tendencies, this richly textured, dramatically disciplined, erotically laced and emotionally taut creation makes for weirdly kinky historical analysis, but pretty steamy pre-tabloid melodrama.
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June 09, 2008:
RT on DVD: Bosomy Boleyn Girls, Jumper, John Adams
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June 05, 2008:
Another Boleyn Girl On the Way?
Despite lukewarm reviews and middling box-office receipts, rumor has it that work has begun on a sequel to The Other Boleyn Girl. More...
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