Stage Beauty
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Derek Hutchinson, Mark Letheren, Rupert Everett Director: Richard Eyre Brand: Lions Gate Producer: Amir Jacob Malin Producer: Hardy Justice Producer: James D. Stern Producer: Jane Rosenthal Producer: Jill Tandy Producer: Malcolm Ritchie Writer: Jeffrey Hatcher DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-03-08 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Lions Gate |
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Movie Reviews of Stage Beauty
Movie Review: wow, I'm all negative on this movie...dang!
Summary: 2 Stars
Pepys was hardly ever around the king as much as they show in the movie. In his diaries he makes a big deal of seeing the king, and it's not very often, and it's NEVER about stages or plays. It's silly that they even have Pepys wandering around the stage and the actors that much, he certainly didn't write as if he did.
Anyway, the movie was mostly boring, but sometimes laughable. Billy Crudup's performance was just silly. The way he talked like a girl and did his arm gestures - well, sure, it might have really been like that, I don't know, but it's sure enough to make you chuckle when you see it in a movie. I have to admit, I lost respect for Billy Crudup after seeing this. As for Claire Danes, she can't act - well, if she DOES act, it's mostly her overacting, scrunching her face all angry or intense, sometimes yelling in that silly fake English accent that almost (but not quite) rivals Winona Ryder's accent in "Dracula."
I can't really say I "learned" much from this movie. They portrayed almost everyone of historical reality in a false way, so why would I trust them to portray the "real" stage life of that period? Best go read a book on the subject if it interested me. Which it doesn't really. As for Pepys' journal, that's grand entertainment. I'll stick with that.