Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. PG | 2h 14min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 25 October 1996 (USA) 1:59 | Trailer. Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840. Viola disguises herself as a male page named Cesario and ... Use the HTML below. With Sheila Atim, Antony Bunsee, Shalini Peiris, Simon Nagra.
Was this review helpful to you? You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. When she lands in a foreign country, Viola dresses as her brother and adopts the name Cesario, becoming a trusted friend and confidante to the Count Orsino. Shipwrecked twins are lost among love-sick aristocrats, unruly servants, mischievous pleasure seekers, clowns, and a puritan. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Twelfth Night. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend. Racial tensions boil over. Recommended.Looking for some great streaming picks? Meanwhile, war is brewing. Things get more complicated in this bittersweet Shakespeare comedy when a moronic nobleman, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and a self-important servant, Malvolio, get caught up in the schemes of Olivia's uncle, the obese, alcoholic Sir Toby, who leads each to believe Olivia loves him.
Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated after a shipwreck on the coast of Illyria, and each believes the other drowned. With music as the bittersweet "food of love," all converge and conspire in this comic journey. Hollywood Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's beloved comedy that centers around a girl named Viola, washed up on the shore of an unfamiliar coastal town, and her attempts to make a new life for herself. The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. The tragic events of a boat captain trying to collect a debt to save his fleet of boats, as remembered by his ten year old son. A Greek tragedy told in Chinese pop music.
Orsino ... Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves. Shakespeare's comedy about twins, Viola and Sebastian, shipwrecked on the island of Illyria. Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves. ... With music as the bittersweet "food of love," all converge and conspire in this comic journey. Shipwrecked twins are lost among love-sick aristocrats, unruly servants, mischievous pleasure seekers, clowns, and a puritan.
He sends Cesario to do his wooing, and Olivia falls in love with the disguised maiden. Hollywood Shakespeare presents Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, a modern retelling of this epic tale. An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. 1 VIDEO | 34 IMAGES.