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Movie Info

The friendly collaboration of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah) ultimately turns to betrayal during the French Revolution.

Rating:

PG-13
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Julien Temple
Producer:

Nick O'Hagan
Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce
Release Date (Streaming):

May 13, 2008
Runtime:

2h 4m
Sound Mix:

Surround

Cast & Crew

Linus Roache
Samuel Coleridge

John Hannah
William Wordsworth

Samantha Morton
Sara Coleridge

Emily Woof
Dorothy Wordsworth

Emma Fielding
Mary Wordsworth

Andy Serkis
John Thelwall

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Critic Reviews for Pandaemonium

All Critics (26) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (11)

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December 30, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Empire Magazine
Successfully gets to the heart of the obsessions that drive great writers -- and will have you dusting down your old school copy of the 'Lyrical Ballads'!

September 17, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Sandi Chaitram
BBC.com
Goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.

July 23, 2001 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
Literate and handsome.

July 13, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Lawrence Van Gelder
New York Times
Historically and dramatically dubious.

July 13, 2001 | Rating: 1.5/4

Lou Lumenick
New York Post
A harebrained, awkward, and dramatically muddled historical pageant.

July 12, 2001

Michael Atkinson
Mr. Showbiz
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August 8, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
It's probably somewhat ironic that 'Pandaemonium' would have been far more appealing if its central characters were hoi-polloi poetic wannabes.

February 13, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Tom Grealis
RTÉ (Ireland)
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September 22, 2002 | Rating: 3/5

Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
A watchable but silly biopic melodrama about the relationship between fellow romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah)...

March 4, 2002 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
if one is to judge "Pandaemonium" on its own merits as a work of fiction, for the most part it succeeds.

December 21, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Ted Murphy
Baseline.Hollywood.com
Well-intentioned and at the same time sadly indulgent as [Temple] modifies history to suit the MTV generation.

July 30, 2001 | Full Review…

Bruce Feld
Film Journal International

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Audience Reviews for Pandaemonium

Jan 11, 2011

A fanciful and atmospheric fantasy based loosely on the lives of Coleridge and Wordsworth - there's more than a hint of Schafer's Amadeus in this tale of tortured artists and jealousy. Great cast, beautifully shot and poetry of a kind both new and old as the script dovetails effortlessly with some of England's greatest romantic verse.

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