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Topsy-Turvy

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United Kingdom, United States · 1999
Rated R · 2h 40m
Director Mike Leigh
Starring Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Dexter Fletcher
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music

After their production, “Princess Ida,” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to convince the two to work together again. A monument to the process of making art, filled with delicious backstage drama.

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Newsweek by David Ansen

Filled with delicious backstage drama, and superb actors reveling in the opportunity to play their 19th-century counterparts.

90

Slate by David Edelstein

A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.

90

Film.com by Ernest Hardy

Leigh and his solid cast make sure that inside jokes translate to a broad audience, and that their rendering of the back-stage drama is smart, engrossing and often very funny.

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