Stage Beauty

The premise of the story was wonderful and could have led for a really good movie, but it falls short from the acting. When you have a movie about the stage, the acting gets quite sticky from actors trying to do... Full review

"Stage Beauty" is a beautiful recreation of Restoration London. Claire Danes is very good. Billy Crudup is only so so at best. No one would really believe he is a woman. Rupert Everett is great as Charles II. The script isn't... Full review

Classic *****. This movie is what shakespeare in love wanted to be. Despite the slightly disturbing but brief "man love" everithing else seems to come togather perfectly.... Full review

Classic *****. This movie is what shakespeare in love wanted to be. Despite the slightly disturbing but brief "man love" everithing else seems to come togather perfectly.... Full review

stage beauty is a wonderfil movie with good actor especially billy crudup is really perfect in this rolr.i loved it or him.i dont understand why stage beauty wasnt nominated for an academy award instead they nominated damn sideways and vera drake... Full review

stage beauty is a wonderfil movie with good actor especially billy crudup is really perfect in this rolr.i loved it or him.i dont understand why stage beauty wasnt nominated for an academy award instead they nominated damn sideways and vera drake... Full review

Stage Beauty is not nearly as much a movie as it is a Billy Crudup seminar. Billy Crudup has amazing talent and it is shown through this demanding script. Claire Daines however, was awful. She was absolutely dreadful to watch and... Full review

I was dissapointed i walked out of the movie! IT was terrible! Truly dissapinted acting was great but movie was terrible. If you don't like 17th century boring crap for the first hour then don't see this movie!... Full review

"The Restoration" theatre vividly brought to life by a first-rate "Company of Players".In an age when women were forbidden to perform on the stage Ned Kynaston was arguably the "prettiest man in London" & the toast of the theatrical world.But when... Full review

"The Restoration" theatre vividly brought to life by a first-rate "Company of Players".In an age when women were forbidden to perform on the stage Ned Kynaston was arguably the "prettiest man in London" & the toast of the theatrical world.But when... Full review

In spite of a sludgy Sunday-brunch score and a weak performance from Ms. Danes ... Full Review

Circumstances throw Kynaston and Maria together as they try to help each other be better actors. The story overworks the sexual role-playing angle, in fact, it beats you over the head with it until you are beaten, bloodied and bored. ... Full Review

Stage Beauty is smart, sexy and one of the best 'feelgood' comedies of the year.....When you compare Stage Beauty to a crowd pleasing 'Oscar movie' like Shakespeare In Love , the former is a breath of fresh air.....Stage Beauty is a fabulous romp through the changing, evolutionary face of theatre.....Plus, it is a delicious satire and examination of what maketh the woman and what maketh the man in life, love, and on stage..... ... Full Review

Since a good deal of the movie examines the relationship between their two characters, I cautiously suggest....Crudup replies angrily..... ... Full Review

But Stage Beauty gradually loses its direction and its nerve. He makes the character elusive, ambiguous, self-absorbed: he embodies, in vivid and direct ways, the film's interests in performance and gender. ... Full Review

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Im 17.Jahrhundert herrscht auf Englands Theaterbhnen striktes Frauenverbot, und der Schauspieler Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup aus "Almost Famous") ist mit seiner einnehmenden Optik die erste Wahl fr Shakespeares Frauencharaktere. ... Full Article

Stage Beauty and Kinsey, said he was speaking "out of rage" at the situation the British industry was in. "We face the bleakest prospect for indigenous UK production since I started in the film business in the mid-1980s," Mr Kuhn... ... Full Article

It's the 1660s, and Edward 'Ned' Kynaston is England's most celebrated leading lady. Women are forbidden to appear on stage and Ned profits, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. ... Full Article

Billy Crudup is best known to moviegoers for his role as a rock star in Cameron Crowe's 2000 movie Almost Famous . But his latest role in Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty is attracting plenty of attention. ... Full Article