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Stage Beauty (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Eyre

Written By:
Jeffrey Hatcher

Actors:
Derek Hutchinson ..... Stage Manager
Mark Letheren ..... Male Emilia / Dickie
Claire Danes ..... Maria Hughes
Billy Crudup ..... Ned Kynaston
Tom Wilkinson ..... Thomas Betterton
Ben Chaplin ..... George Villiers II - Duke of Buckingham
Hugh Bonneville ..... Samuel Pepys
Jack Kempton ..... Call Boy
Alice Eve ..... Miss Frayne
Fenella Woolgar ..... Lady Meresvale
David Westhead ..... Harry
Nick Barber ..... Nick
Stephen Marcus ..... Thomas Cockerell
Richard Griffiths ..... Sir Charles Sedley
Zoë Tapper ..... Nell Gwynn

Synopsis:

It is the 1660's women are forbidden from the stage and their roles are played by men. Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is England's most celebrated leading lady. However when King Charles II (Rupert Everett) issues a royal decree banning men from playing women's parts, Ned is cast out of the spotlight overnight. That is, until his ex-dresser and now rising star Maria (Claire Danes) takes it upon herself to make a man of him again.

Based in the 1660's of London's theaters, this film is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the assumedly gay cross-dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello, he also has a close relationship with a member of the Royal Court, the Duke of Buckingham. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II decides to make the law that all female roles should be played only by women. Maria becomes a star, while Ned finds himself out of work. But after a while, Ned finds it in his nature to forgive Maria's aspiration, they may even fall in love, and Charles may proclaim women will be played by either gender.

In Stuart Restoration king Charles II's reign, gay actor Ned Kynaston, a specialist in female parts, enjoys the favor of the public on stage and royal favorite George Villiars, Duke of Buckingham, in bed. But his dresser, Maria, secretly learned acting by observing him and started performing (illegally) in a tavern. When the king's awfully common mistress, a former saleswoman, sides with Maria, the prohibition on actresses is lifted, later even reversed. Still Maria realizes she's artistically far inferior to Ned, and takes him in after bigot 'gentry' roughed him up badly..

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