Topsy-Turvy
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Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings
- Starring: Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent
- Summary: When their latest play fails and they threaten to disband, Gilbert and Sullivan are inspired to create their masterpiece, "The Mikado."
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy, Music
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Positive: 30 out of 31
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100It is one of the year's best films.
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100Some movies delight you. Some stimulate and provoke. Some enlighten and inform. And some simply hand you a rousing good time-- does all of that and more.
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80A bit longer than it might be, a bit more attached to its digressions than we might wish. But the length does encourage the feeling that we've been through the whole creative process with Gilbert and Sullivan .
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50But there's so much more of the very, very British Topsy-Turvy that just seems so stuffy and inert.
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CherylC.10What an extraordinary evocation of an era, the theater and the creative process generally. A thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully well done production!
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