Anonymous (Blu-ray) PG-13
Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto & Rafe Spall | |
Performer: | Edward Hogg, Xavier Samuel, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joely Richardson & Derek Jacobi | |
Directed by | Roland Emmerich | |
Screenwriting by | John Orloff | |
Composition by | Harald Kloser & Thomas Wander | |
Story by | John Orloff | |
Director of Photography: | Anna Foerster |
Entertainment Reviews:
There are palace intrigues, beddings and beheadings, and lots of well-staged theater. Rhys Ifans turns out to be the best surprise of all...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B- --
[Anonymous] just isn't remotely convincing when it comes to getting us to wonder if any history, theatrical or familial, might have happened the way it's shown here.
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Assignment X
Rating: 3/4 --
Bad history beautifully done.
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Tribune News Service
This is a stupid person's idea of what a clever film might be and, although I adore Ifans, not even he can save it.
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The Spectator
Rating: 2.5/5 --
The director offers up an unfocused but intriguing alternate look at William Shakespeare.
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Big Hollywood
4 stars out of 5 -- What works in ANONYMOUS is that Emmerich's first focus is the plot. Fleet and fascinating, he convinces the audience that this centuries-old half-true melodrama demands attention.
Box Office
Rating: 1/4 --
Will Shakespeare, whose words shine on, bright and brave, Is turning o'er with laughter in his grave.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Product Description:
Director Roland Emmerich takes a break from his long string of big-budget disaster films with ANONYMOUS, a historical drama that suggests Shakespeare was a fraud. Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans) is an aristocrat who yearns to write poetry and plays, but due to social and political constraints, he is forced to use a front for his political-minded works because they subtly encourage Queen Elizabeth to alter her plan for succession in a way that is in direct opposition to her most-trusted political advisers. When drunken, illiterate, fame-hungry actor William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) passes off the plays as his own, de Vere finds his man, but eventually he is blackmailed when the morally dubious thespian wants more and more. ANONYMOUS screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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