All Is True

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

as William Shakespeare

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

as Anne Shakespeare

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

as Earl of Southampton

Kathryn Wilder

Kathryn Wilder

as Judith Shakespeare

Lydia Wilson

Lydia Wilson

as Susanna Hall

Hadley Fraser

Hadley Fraser

as John Hall

Jack Colgrave Hirst

Jack Colgrave Hirst

as Tom Quiney

John Dagleish

John Dagleish

as Rafe Smith

Sean Foley

Sean Foley

as John Lane

Gerard Horan

Gerard Horan

as Ben Jonson

Reviews

Stephen Campbell

**_A strangely formless and insubstantial love-letter to Shakespeare_** > _There is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his_ Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde_, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute_ Iohannes fac...

Peter McGinn

I must admit, this movie sneaked up on me. It starts out slow, and in fact establishes a fairly low key pace through the film. But there are passionate outbursts and exciting reveals. I almost feel sorry for those impatient viewers who are done in by movies that present complex, finely drawn plots. ...

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