A midsummer night's dream

Resource Information

The work A midsummer night's dream represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A midsummer night's dream

Statement of responsibility

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Regency Enterprises present ; produced by Leslie Urdang, Michael Hoffman ; screenplay by Michael Hoffman ; directed by Michael Hoffman

Title variation

William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream

Contributor

• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Regency Enterprises
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Bale, Christian, 1974-
• Boswell, Simon
• Everett, Rupert
• Flockhart, Calista, 1964-
• Friel, Anna, 1976-
• Hill, Bernard, 1944-
• Hoffman, Michael
• Irwin, Bill, 1950-
• Jbara, Gregory
• Kline, Kevin
• Marceau, Sophie, 1966-
• Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1957-
• Rees, Roger, 1944-2015
• Rockwell, Sam
• Sessions, John, 1953-2020
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Strathairn, David
• Tucci, Stanley
• Urdang, Leslie
• West, Dominic, 1969-
• Wright, Max, 1943-2019

Subject

• Closed caption video recordings
• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• Fairies -- Drama
• Fairies -- Fiction
• Fairies -- Fiction
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Italy -- Drama
• Italy -- Fiction
• Italy -- Fiction
• Love -- Drama
• Love -- Fiction
• Love stories
• Magic -- Drama
• Magic -- Fiction
• Magic -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationship -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• Motion pictures
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction
• Film adaptations
• Motion pictures

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

Presents the film adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play "Midsummer Nights Dream" about two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a group of amateur actors, and a love potion gone wrong in late nineteenth-century Italy

Cataloging source

ICrlFAR

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; film editor, Garth Craven ; music by Simon Boswell

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 822.3/3

Intended audience

Adult

Intended audience source

Follett Library Resources

Language note

• Soundtrack in English; subtitles in English or Spanish
• Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Bernard Hill, Bill Irwin, Gregory Jbara, Kevin Kline, Sophie Marceau, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roger Rees, Sam Rockwell, John Sessions, David Strathairn, Stanley Tucci, Dominic West, Max Wright

Runtime

120

Target audience

general

Technique

live action