Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Droll and enchanting fantasy:

Shakespeare in Love is the David that toppled the Goliath, Saving Private Ryan, in the 1999 Oscar race. It won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress [Gwenyth Paltrow] and Best Supporting Actress [Judi Dench] vs. Ryan's five awards. Both are great movies, and the Steven Spielburg war epic may be technically the better one. I think Shakespeare in Love won because it is not a film you revere or admire. It is one you love.

What we have here is a lark, a frolic, a bawdy Elizabethan romp played by... more info

Shakespeare in Love is decent, but not much more:

I was watching the Oscars last year waiting to see which film would be awarded Best Picture. To my surprise the honor went to Shakespeare in Love rather than Saving Private Ryan (which is the best war film ever made).

So, I watched Shakespeare in Love and I was disappointed. The film received spectacular reviews and I had been expecting a hilarious romantic comedy with great chemistry between Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes. Instead, the film offered occasionally moments of funny humor and clever wit... more info

Top-Ten Romance, and One of the Most Clever Screenplays!:

"Shakespeare in Love" is a triumph, pure and simple. With screenwriters Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman at the top of their game and feeding immortal lines to a top-notch cast, "Shakespeare in Love" could not fail to succeed.

The film opens with young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) struggling with writer's block . . . he is clearly not yet the magnificent WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (insert trumpets here), the world's most famous writer. Indeed, the top playwright of the age is Kit Marlowe (Rupert Everett), as... more info

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