William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

Heath Ledger
as William Thatcher

Rufus Sewell
as Count Adhemar

Shannyn Sossamon
as Jocelyn

Paul Bettany
as Geoffrey Chaucer

Laura Fraser
as Kate

Mark Addy
as Roland

Alan Tudyk
as Wat

Bérénice Bejo
as Christiana

Scott Handy
as Germaine

James Purefoy
as Colville
Kamurai
Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend. What a fantastic cast: I honestly don't know if you could have cast it better. Just thinking about Alan Tudyk, Heath Ledger, and Shannyn Sossamon makes me smile. Everyone plays their roles fantasticly, taking their stock characters, and spinnin...
GenerationofSwine
My dad, rest his soul, really liked this and at the time it came out I was a pretentious college student that had forsaken all things fun and couldn't understand what my father could possibly like about it. And now I'm living in a world where someone makes a tweet with the president's head morphe...