A Midsummer Night's Dream

1999
PG-13
1h 56m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

27K

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Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, and Stanley Tucci in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.

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Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.

Director
- Michael Hoffman
Writers
- William Shakespeare
- Michael Hoffman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

27K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Michael Hoffman
Writers
- William Shakespeare
- Michael Hoffman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

Trivia
Calista Flockhart and Anna Friel's mud fight had to be filmed twice. It took four hours to prep and clean the actresses for a second take.

Goofs
The opening text tells us that the movie is set at "the turn of the 19th century," which would be around 1800. It meant to say "the turn of the 20th century," as the movie is clearly set around 1900.

Quotes
[Last lines]
Puck: If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumber'd here / While these visions did appear. / And this weak and idle theme, / No more yielding but a dream, / Gentles, do not reprehend: / If you pardon we will mend. / Else the Puck a liar call. / Give me your hands, if we be friends, / And Robin shall restore amends.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Mummy/The Castle/This Is My Father/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1999)

Soundtracks
Incidental music
from the 1843 German stage production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited, London
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music

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Featured review

8/10

very nice to look at

I admit, that I have not read the play, so probably all of the credit for the idea goes to Shakespeare himself. But I was also caught by the magic of the pictures. The actors and actresses were so pretty, the story so nicely recited, and the atmosphere somehow magically ravishing. I got a lot of positive feelings out of this movie, and when I walk through the forest now, I am reminded of them. Well, this film did leave a wonderful trace in my mind. Hopefully, it lasts for a couple of days. I give it an 8/10.