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All Is True

Name: All Is True
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2018-12-21
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 6.065

★ 6,1 /10 (147 Votes)

2018 EN 101 min

Overview

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

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Release date

21/12/2018

Votes

147

Popularity

2.9

The final act of the world's greatest playwright

Genres

Drama History

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

101 min

Revenue

$3,019,143

Website

sonyclassics.com

Kenneth Branagh

William Shakespeare

Judi Dench

Anne Shakespeare

Ian McKellen

Earl of Southampton

Kathryn Wilder

Judith Shakespeare

Lydia Wilson

Susanna Hall

Hadley Fraser

John Hall

Jack Colgrave Hirst

Tom Quiney

John Dagleish

Rafe Smith

Sean Foley

John Lane

Gerard Horan

Ben Jonson

Jimmy Yuill

Edward Woolmer

Alex Macqueen

Sir Thomas Lucy

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Eleanor de Rohan

Margaret Wheeler

Nonso Anozie

Actor

Lolita Chakrabarti

Lena

Darryl Clark

Mr. Wheeler

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Doug Colling

Douglas

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Clara Duczmal

Elizabeth Hall

Phil Dunster

Harry

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Freya Durkan

Young Judith Shakespeare

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Sam Ellis

Hamnet Shakespeare

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Matt Jessup

Frank

Harry Lister Smith

Jack Cade

Hamish McColl

Judge

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Sabi Perez

Maria

Michael Rouse

Francis Collins

Penny Ryder

Mrs. Wheeler

Kate Tydman

Lady Thomas Lucy

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Ian Hearnshaw

Townsman

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Oliver Simms

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

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**_A strangely formless and insubstantial love-letter to Shakespeare_** > _There is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his_ Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde_, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute_ Iohannes fac totum_, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey._ - Robert Greene; _Greenes Groats-VVorth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance_ (1592) "We know very little about the life of William Shakespeare." If you're ever reading something that says this, or any variation the…

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I must admit, this movie sneaked up on me. It starts out slow, and in fact establishes a fairly low key pace through the film. But there are passionate outbursts and exciting reveals. I almost feel sorry for those impatient viewers who are done in by movies that present complex, finely drawn plots. I can only assume they would also nod off while watching an actual Shakespeare play (as in, "Why don't they speak real English?"). I suppose the details of All is True aren't all completely true, but even the Bard himself took liberty with his source materials, which, let us remember, was often h…

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