A Midsummer Night's Dream PG-13

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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 30, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: 20th Century Fox

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 74,632
If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it.
Houston Chronicle
Jul 21, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- Hoffman charts a middle course, and travels it quite well -- his version is neither as elaborately baroque as Max Reinhardt's 1935 film treatment nor as starkly sexual as Peter Brooks's celebrated 1970 staging. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Mar 19, 2002
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Bathed in sunshine, stardust and star power, this 'Dream' should be required viewing for anyone who insists Shakespeare is stuffy and dull. ...this is Shakespeare for the masses. Full Review
Kalamazoo Gazette
Aug 5, 2007
...A great movie and a talented cast...
Total Film
Oct 1, 1999
I remain skeptical about the ability of even the best American actors to read Shakespeare's lines without giving the impression that they are enduring very painful cultural root canal work. Full Review
Observer
Apr 27, 2007
Injecting the film with fun and pathos, Kline makes a superb Bottom; it's his play and he acts it to the hilt. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- It has fun and makes you laugh. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jun 3, 2006

Product Description:

Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of a love-tangled quadrangle shimmers with sumptuous cinematography and a truly stellar cast that includes Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, and Sam Rockwell. Relocated from Athens to an Italian villa, the film follows the romantic misadventures of four would-be lovers; at the beginning of the film Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander, but all of that undergoes a change when the four young people chase each other into the woods and wander into the domain of Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the Fairies), and the mischievous magic of Puck who possesses a flower that causes people to fall in love with the first person they encounter. Into the hilarity and confusion stumble a hapless band of laborers rehearsing a play for the Duke's wedding. One of the band, Nick Bottom, a humble weaver, is given the head of donkey and then, through the power of the flower, wins the love of Titania herself. After a dizzying whirl of magic, mayhem, and a million minor follies of the heart, everything is sorted out and everyone finds, at last, their match.

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  • UPC: 086162123085
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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