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Rating: Null/10 (22 May 1999)

At the moment of this writing there are 234 user comments racked up for and against this film. Many, many of them refer to the fact that Shakespeare in Love won an Oscar (undeservedly). No surprise there. Oscar rarely has anything to do with merit. Get a life folks!
It is a good little independent movie that was made without any Oscar ambitions, for the fun of it... It is a sly homage by British actors and technicians about the twisted, funny world of theater... It deals with the vulnerability of these artists in the face of poverty and censure... It does succeed in entertaining, if you do not walk in with expectations bloated by the hype surrounding the Oscar.