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Paramount Pictures
details
Release Date: Oct 11, 1996
Running Time: 108 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Moving from New York's streets to London's reconstructed Globe Theater, and talking with everyone from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated actors, Al Pacino serves as the voluble, mercurial center of a film that interweaves commentary on Shakespeare with analysis of, rehearsals for, and key segments from, a film version of Richard III.
cast + crew
Director
Queen Elizabeth
Dorset
Rivers
Grey
King Edward
Clarence
Richard III
Prince Edward
Young Prince
Hastings
Writer
Play as Source Material
reviews
December 8, 2000
Bored by the Bard? Tired of sorting out kings, queens and cousins in history plays like Richard III? Step up and let Al Pacino restore your faith in English lit. In two hours, methinks he'll have you talking in iambic pentameter. Yes, gang, it's Shakespeare for the stupid.
I'm kidding. But the notion of Pacino making his directing debut with a film in which he and a starry cast, including Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, perform snippets of Richard III interspersed with actors… 
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