Shakespeare in Love

MOVIE #1,084 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.28.23 This came out 2 years and 9 months before 9/11. There’s no way to say if this was a coincidence or not and I am no way insinuating that the release of Shakespeare in Love had anything to do with the towers falling on that fateful day. But facts are facts. Look, I don’t have much to say about this. When I reviewed the very blah Captain Corelli’s Mandolin for The Year of Cage project, I thought it was funny that it was Coach John Madden’s follow-up to this Oscar-slaying “little movie that could.” It’s also funny that, at the time, this was scene as such an underdog, because it seems EXACTLY like the type of movie that would clean up at the Academy Awards when viewed today. This is all to say that it’s completely fine.

It’s not my bag but I could totally see how and why it would be someone’s favorite film of all-time. I was also struck by its tone, which is explicitly going for a romcom vibe. In my memory, it was a much more serious movie but honestly if that had been the case, it probably would have been much worse.

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Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench. It was released on December 11, 1998.