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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) 6.5
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Metascore: 61/100
Reviews: 220 user | 94 critic | 24 from Metacritic.com Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love. Director:Michael Hoffman |
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Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny. Written by Lordship <lordship@juno.com>
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14 May 1999 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$11,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$4,285,620 (USA) (14 May 1999)Gross:
£1,183,531 (UK) (15 October 1999)Company Credits
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Bottom the Weaver: What do you see? What; do you see an ass' head of your own, do you?
Peter Quince: [backing away] Bless me. Thou art translated.
[all run off, leaving Bottom alone on the stage]
Bottom the Weaver: Why do they run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.
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from the opera "L'elisir d'amore"
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Roberto Alagna
with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon (as Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Lyon)
Conducted by Evelino Pidò
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited, London
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
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Some of the orchestral score is from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's 1843 incidental music for this William Shakespeare play. It has also been used in Frederick Ashton's 1964 ballet adaptation of the play, "The Dream", and in George Balanchine's ballet version of the play. The 1935 film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) also used generous chunks of Mendelssohn's music. See more »Goofs
The medal and the red ribbon that Bottom is wearing when he leaves the theatre are different from those he's wearing when he arrives at home. See more »Quotes
Tom Snout: [Puck has turned Bottom into a donkey] Bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on thee?Bottom the Weaver: What do you see? What; do you see an ass' head of your own, do you?
Peter Quince: [backing away] Bless me. Thou art translated.
[all run off, leaving Bottom alone on the stage]
Bottom the Weaver: Why do they run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.
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Una furtiva lagrimafrom the opera "L'elisir d'amore"
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Roberto Alagna
with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon (as Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Lyon)
Conducted by Evelino Pidò
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited, London
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
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Though some critics have dumped on this film, I was charmed by it. The movie literally sparkles. The settings are full of rich colors and magical lighting. The romantic classical music is all well chosen to help induce the hypnotic or dreamlike qualities. And the cast is an utter delight.
This is a fluffy cloud of fairy dust -- just as Shakespeare intended.