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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780613300
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0780613309
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: July 14, 1998
Running Time: 134 minutes
Sales Rank: 3930
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1996
Editorial Review:
Description:
This picture is an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy. The setting has been updated to the victorian era but the focus is still on the universal question of gender.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Best Shakespeare Movie
Trevor Nunn's version of Twelfth Night is the best cinematic rendition of any Shakespeare play. While Nunn makes liberal alterations in Shakespeare's word order and adds some non-Shakespearean text, he captures the humor, romance and poignancy of Twelfth Night. The cast is uniformly superb with Ben Kingsley as a fascinating choice for the role of the Fool and Helena Bonham Carter wonderfully subtle, humorous and endearing. The music is excellent and the settings beautiful. My only criticism is the ... Read More
Rating: - Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night
This is a review of the 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with Trevor Nunn as both screenwriter and director. Nunn remade this play into a beautifully filmed two hour movie that is understandable and entertaining for a wide range of people today. Nunn cut out vast swaths of Shakespeare's text, simplified much, and changed a few things, but still largely maintained Shakespeare's characters, subplots, imagery, and purpose.
Other reviewers have already correctly identified ... Read More
Rating: - A shakespirian masterpiece
This movie is a real delight to those who love theather. With almost none other than the actors own capabilities, you can be surprised about how much a little misunderstanding can create such a funny inslght to human nature.
Rating: - Loved it
I should acknowledge, first of all, that this is probably my favorite of Shakespeare's plays; therefore, I'm inclined to be biased. Still, I loved this movie.
In particular, I was delighted to see Ben Kingsley as Feste the Jester and was impressed that he could sing so well.
I also really enjoyed the scenes wherein Olivia (Helena Bonham Carter) is being wooed by Viola (Imogen Stubbs) for the Duke (Toby Stephens). I liked the banter and the irony of the first scene in particular. ... Read More
Rating: - Splendid!
Many people might be compelled to see this film after seeing Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series). This is certainly not a bad thing, and there are in-fact allusions to 12th Night in SIL w/all the gender-switching that is goes on in both. Of course, you don't realize you're being "set up" until the end of SIL, but that's part of the fun!
This is a very well-done Shakespeare on-screen production. While plays are all well & good, there is something to be said to seeing Shakespeare ... Read More
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