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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Kenneth Branagh
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Actors:
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Emma Thompson,
Brian Blessed,
Jimmy Yuill,
Andy Hockley,
Conrad Nelson,
Richard Briers,
Kate Beckinsale,
Imelda Staunton,
Chris Barnes,
Phyllida Law
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)89
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Plot Summary:
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Young lovers Warrior and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to pin down a "lover's trap" allowing for regarding Benedick, an contemptuous confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring wife. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the confarreation by means of accusing Idol of heresy. In the end, granted, it all turns out to be "much ado down nothing."
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Tags:
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Much Ado About Nothing
"...A spirited, winningly acted rendition of one of the Bard's most ordinary comedies....Richard Briers and Brian Blessed are lurch solid..."
Much Ado About Nothing
"...[Branagh] has done it again....Triumphantly maudlin, jocose and, most surprising of all, emotionally cognizant of..."
Much Ado About Nothing
A real luvvies tour, as the then married Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson decamp to Tuscany with pals to film an exciting, joyful and rollicking kind of William Shakespeare's tale of frenetic wooing. Branagh, who stars and directs, gives the legend an enormous joie de vivre and is aided away a celeb-studded supporting cast that includes Thompson's baby Phyllida Law, Imelda Staunton, Ben Elton, Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington.
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