Shakespeare in Love [DVD]

£4.99 (new & sealed)

This Tom Stoppard penned period comedy won seven Oscars, including those for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) and Original Screenplay. In late 16th Century London, the theatre's most promising young playwright, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), is suffering from writer's block. Rose Theatre owner Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) is desperate that Will's new play - tentatively entitled Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter - be finished, whilst a new cast member, Thomas Kent, is equally eager to make his stage debut.

Kent has a secret however: 'he' is actually Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), merchant's daughter and fiancé of Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). Adopting a disguise to enter a trade forbidden to women, matters become complicated when Will falls for her in her more conventional garb. It may take the intervention of Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench) herself to make sure the course of true love runs smoothly and that the show goes on.

Label: Universal Studios
Year: 1998
Runtime: 119
Rating: 15
Release Date: 24th September 2013
Resolution: 576i (PAL)
Screen Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Disks: 1
Extras: Interactive Menus
Region: Region 2
Genres: Romance, Drama, Period, Comedy
Directors: John Madden
Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Simon Callow, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Steven O'Donnell, Tim McMullen, Steven Beard, Antony Sher, Patrick Barlow, Martin Clunes, Imelda Staunton, Mark Williams
Barcode: 5050582074123
Catalogue No.: 8207412