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Name: Ladyhawke
Released: 1985-4-12
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, Ken Hutchison

Ladyhawke

PG-13
2h 4m
1985

67%

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Ladyhawke is an enchanting tale of a beauty (Michelle Pfeiffer), a knight (Rutger Hauer) – and a pickpocket known as the Mouse (Matthew Broderick). Once the knight and the lady were lovers. Now the curse of an evil bishop (John Wood) keeps them "always together, eternally apart." By day she is a hawk, by night he is a wolf. To end the evil spell, the knight vows to break into the bishop's stronghold, with help from the Mouse. Directed by Richard Donner and photographed by three-time Academy Award®-winner Vittorio Storaro, Ladyhawke "is the most congenial spot for happy ever aftering since Camelot" (Rita Kempley, The Washington Post).

Director:

Richard Donner

Producer:

Richard Donner, Lauren Shuler Donner, Harvey Bernhard

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, Ken Hutchison, John Wood, Alfred Molina, Giancarlo Prete

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

67%

Critics Consensus: There are pacing problems, but Ladyhawke has an undeniable romantic sweep that's stronger than most fantasy epics of its ilk.

Reviews

Los Angeles Times

Sheila Benson

The actors are extravagantly good: Hauer, as always, with a sense of intelligence behind his physical exploits; Pfeiffer, strong and exquisite, and Broderick, embroidering on his role as go-between, is irresistible, comic and wistful by turns.

Here is the kind of elaborate, gothic tragedy that fuels Germanic operas and Heavy Metal ballads — the lovers who can remain together but forever be apart.

Richard Donner has made Ladyhawke an uncontroversial fairy tale for young children, as the film's blandness and stereotype performances...offers nothing interesting, let alone new.

A thoroughly delightful fantasy romance that holds up remarkably well and deserves to be rediscovered by today's younger audiences.

A competent fantasy with likeable heroes and dastardly villains, though the running time is slightly overlong.

September 6, 2020

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