The Tempest

Name: The Tempest
Released: 2010-12-10
Cast: Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Reeve Carney, Tom Conti, Chris Cooper

The Tempest

PG-13
1h 50m
2010

30%

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After a harrowing shipwreck, the members of a royal court are washed ashore on various parts of a mysterious island. Their fateful arrival on this particular island is no coincidence. The exiled Prospera (Mirren) has used her magical powers to guide the ship here to settle a score with the very men who banished her from her homeland. Abetted by her sometimes unwilling aides, Ariel (Whishaw) and Caliban (Hounsou), Prospera puts her former tormentors through some dangerous and often hilarious adventures. However, when the king’s son, Ferdinand (Carney), meets her daughter, Miranda (Jones), it is love at first sight—a kind of magic that even Prospera is powerless to control.

Director:

Julie Taymor

Producer:

Julie Taymor, Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Jason K. Lau

Writer:

Julie Taymor

Cast:

Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Reeve Carney, Tom Conti, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Djimon Hounsou, Felicity Jones, Alfred Molina, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw

Making Of

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Raising The Tempest

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Julie & Cast: Inside the L.A. Rehearsals

Interview with Talent

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Russell Brand Rehearsal Riff

Music Video

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O Mistress Mine Music Video

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

30%

Critics Consensus: Director Julie Taymor's gender-swapping of roles and some frenzied special effects can't quite disguise an otherwise stagey, uninspired take on Shakespeare's classic.

Reviews

Three Imaginary Girls

Amie Simon

... something about The Tempest just didn't work for me. When I see Taymor's name on a film I'm expecting something grand and beautifully fantastic, and this just fell a little flat.

With the exception of Ben Whishaw - who with the help of some imaginative CGI and his own beautiful verse-speaking - the rest of the actors mouth the lines without much élan.

December 2, 2018

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Philadelphia Weekly

Sean Burns

Julie Taymor has a theatre director's idea of how movies work. That's not a compliment.

December 14, 2018

Film Comment Magazine

Violet Lucca

Dispensing with tableau compositions, this adaptation feels liberated from static theatrical and, to a lesser degree, cinematic convention by the overall openness of its staging and camerawork that's somewhere between handheld and Steadicam.