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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream /

Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 4112308 | 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., [1999]Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

5554454380
9785554454387
6305622876
9786305622871

Other title:

Midsummer night's dream

Uniform titles:

Container of (work): William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream (Motion picture)

Related works:

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

822.33 P7C
791.437/2 23

LOC classification:

PR2827.A23 W55 1999

NLM classification:

4112308

Contents:

Main titles -- Wedding preparations -- The course of true love -- Casting a play -- Fairies -- Puck's errand -- Helena and Demetrius -- The flower -- Titania's bower -- Lysander and Hermia -- Helena enters -- The rehearsal place -- Puck's trick -- Puck's mistake -- A donkey and a queen -- Helena's lovers -- The cure -- The wood nymphs -- Bottom's dream -- A wedding celebration -- Pyramus and Thisbe -- Fairy time -- Puck's speech -- End titles.

Production credits:

Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Garth Craven ; production designer, Luciana Arrighi ; music, Simon Boswell ; costume designer, Gabriella Pescucci.

Cast: Christian Bale (Demetrius), Rupert Everett (Oberon), Calista Flockhart (Helena), Anna Friel (Hermia), Bernard Hill (Egeus), Bill Irwin (Tom Snout), Gregory Jbara (Snug), Kevin Kline (Nick Bottom), Sophie Marceau (Hippolyta), Michelle Pfeiffer (Titania), Roger Rees (Peter Quince), Sam Rockwell (Francis Flute), John Sessions (Philostrate), David Strathairn (Theseus), Stanley Tucci (Puck), Dominic West (Lysander), Max Wright (Robin Starveling).Summary: In the village of Monte Athena in Italy at the turn of the 19th century, necklines are high, parents are rigid, and marriage is seldom a matter of love. Thus, Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander, while her father wants only Demetrius for his son-in-law. Poor Helena burns hot for Demetrius, who avoids her like the plague. Meanwhile, fairy king Oberon is engaged in a battle of wits with his queen, Titania, and has commanded a trick of Puck, which naturally goes horribly wrong. They are all in the enchanted wood on a midsummer's eve, coming out in the end charged with a gift from the fairies--an enchanted eroticism--that sweeps them away to bed chambers and weddings. The film celebrates love's ability to alter reality while quietly acknowledging that any attempt to portray the feeling of love ultimately falls short.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03291 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1605030811X

Widescreen.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Widescreen 2.35:1.

Special feature: Original theatrical trailer (2 min.).

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some sexual content.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, Dolby surround.

Soundtrack in English with optional subtitles in English and Spanish; subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing [SDH].

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