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- 1999
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1999
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Directed By: Michael Hoffman
Written By: William Shakespeare, Michael Hoffman
- 1999
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1999
- PG-13
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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6.3
Where to Watch
Directed By: Michael Hoffman
Written By: William Shakespeare, Michael Hoffman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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54% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
61
54% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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For my money the most gloriously, enchantingly trivial play in the Shakespearean canon, A Midsummer Night's Dream may also be the most screwup-proof of the bard's works.
Hoffman (Soapdish, One Fine Day) leads a first-rate cast in an intelligent, fully realized adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular comedy that's at once highly cinematic and true to its source.
User Score
Generally Favorable
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6.3
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 User Ratings
6.3
51% Positive
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40% Mixed
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9% Negative
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A gorgeous sliver of grown-up ambrosia.
The major flaw, the clash of acting styles, is at least fascinating to observe. [14 May 1999, Life, p.8E]
Kline turns in a bravura performance -- he's one of the few in this star-packed cast who actually knows what to do with Shakespeare's poetry.
If the picture is often less spellbinding than it wants to be, it's partly Hoffman's fault for creating fantasy moods through traditional stage devices -- lavish props, cute makeup, peek-a-boo costumes -- that seem rather tame for this age of morphed-up visual surprises.
Kevin Kline does his best movie work yet as Nick Bottom...But in most other ways this "Midsummer Night" is hard to endure.
Production Company
Fox Searchlight Pictures,
New Regency Productions,
Taurus Film,
Panoramica
Release Date May 14, 1999
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Hold on to Your Heart. Cupid is Armed and Dangerous.
Awards
Shanghai International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
