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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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United Kingdom, Italy, United States · 1999
Rated PG-13 · 1h 56m
Director Michael Hoffman
Starring Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.

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Entertainment Weekly by

Kline turns in a bravura performance -- he's one of the few in this star-packed cast who actually knows what to do with Shakespeare's poetry.

70

Slate by David Edelstein

Hoffman has wedged the play into a weirdly inapposite setting, has stupidly cut and even more stupidly embellished it, and has miscast it almost to a player. And yet the damn thing works: Shakespeare staggers through, mutilated but triumphant.

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L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

The set design is gung-ho Hallmark (Tinkerbell lights, that sort of thing) with a strong whiff of Fellini (the fairy glade looks like a pre-Raphaelite red-light district).

80

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Hoffman (Soapdish, One Fine Day) leads a first-rate cast in an intelligent, fully realized adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular comedy that's at once highly cinematic and true to its source.

75

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Most of the original play's magical speeches are preserved here, and however far this film may seem to stray from the original text, the delights remain. [14 May 1999, Friday, p.A]

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