“One of the strangest, funniest, most enchanting, most romantic and – fittingly – best-written tales ever spun from the vast legend of William Shakespeare”

- Jack Mathews

“Marred ever so slightly by its indulgent length (it’s too long by at least a half-hour) and by a certain smug, self-satisfied air”

- Joe Baltake

Shakespeare in Love

After he falls in love with the play’s soon-to-be-married lead actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) finds inspiration to write "Romeo & Juliet." Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson. Director: John Madden (1998, R)