A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title. The film sets the play in the fictional Monte Athena in the late nineteenth century. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The film was released in the midst of the short-lived Shakespeare-on-film revival initiated by the success of Kenneth Branagh's He...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title. The film sets the play in the fictional Monte Athena in the late nineteenth century. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The film was released in the midst of the short-lived Shakespeare-on-film revival initiated by the success of Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. Director Michael Hoffman reset the play in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, and several of the characters were seen riding bicycles. There was also a rather notorious mud wrestling scene between Anna Friel (as Hermia) and Calista Flockhart (as Helena). Actor Kevin Kline was cast as a more handsome Nick Bottom than is usual, and was even given a wife (she, however, has no speaking lines and only appears in two scenes). Along with veteran Shakespeare actors, director Michael Hoffman also cast Calista Flockhart, Michelle Pfeiffer,...
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