Best movie of 1999 to date!

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 1999)

This movie has a superb plot, great costumes, make-up, location, direction and an extra cool "play within a play" feature. However, the most meaningful to me was the humanization of Shakepeare (thank you, Tom Stoppard!) and, even better, the return to eroticism of the word. Language is sexy and it plays erotically in this well thought-out script.
The movie prompted me to further research Shakespeare's life and to pull out my Shakespeare collection to review parallels and passages I noted from the movie.
Bravo, John Madden! (And please tell me Joseph pronounces his name just as it reads...!)
jahlove in Sunny California