Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare In Love is an Academy Award-winning romantic comedy released in 1999. A young Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and his love interest Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) show you that there are more layers to the classic love story of Romeo and Juliet than meets the eye.

Shakespeare In Love is a mixture of comedy, drama and romance set in Elizabethan England. It is a fictional look at a young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) with writers block and a beautiful Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) who becomes not only his muse but his love interest. Alas Shakespeare is already married, but it is only a marriage on paper. Lady Viola is also set for an arranged marriage by her family to the Lord Wessex Colin Firth who she detests. As Shakespeare slowly unravels his play Romeo and Juliet, he realizes that his true love cannot die, but can only be separated by distance.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/synopsis

• Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps

• Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Rush as Philip Henslowe

• Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Fennyman

• Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth

"The movie serves as a reminder that Will Shakespeare was once a young playwright on the make, that theater in all times is as much business as show, and that "Romeo and Juliet" must have been written by a man in intimate communication with his libido."—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981225/REVIEWS/812250306/1023

"...a well-produced, cleverly scripted, beautifully designed and superbly performed film: earthy, hearty and full-bloodedly entertaining. Bill the Bard would have been proud."—Tiscali.ukhttp://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/reviews/shakespeare_in_love.html