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A Knight's Tale
Romance film with a runtime of 132 minutes, released in 2001. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
This crowd-pleasing medieval adventure tale is very loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and mixes the anachronistic elements of modern-day rock music and colloquialisms with a period setting and characters. Heath Ledger stars as William Thatcher, a low-born 14th century squire who, in a fit of inspired spontaneity, replaces his deceased employer as the competitor at a jousting competition. Jousting is a pastime only permitted to knights, who are of noble birth, but Thatcher wins and decides to continue his new pursuits. With the help of his two fellow squire friends Wat and Roland (Alan Tudyk and Mark Addy) and none other than the gambling-addicted Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany), Thatcher has soon adopted a false identity and is winning one joust after another on his way to a championship in London. His victories inspire the affection of a female fan, Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon), and the ire of a competitor, Count Adehmar (Rufus Sewell), but Thatcher's ruse is threatened with exposure. A Knight's Tale is the sophomore directorial effort of acclaimed screenwriter Brian Helgeland, who won an Oscar for his work on L.A. Confidential (1997) and debuted behind the camera with the troubled production of Payback (1999).
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Cast
- Heath Ledger
- Rufus Sewell
- Shannyn Sossamon
- Paul Bettany
- Mark Addy
- Alan Tudyk
- Bérénice Bejo
- Scott Handy
- James Purefoy
- Leagh Conwell
- Christopher Cazenove
- Olivia Williams
- Steve O'Donnell
- Jonathan Slinger
- Nick Brimble
- Laura Fraser
- Karel Dobry
- Philip Lenkowsky
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Petr Meissel
- Mathew Mills
- Daniel Rous
- Vladimir Kulhavy
- Miroslav Mokos
- Noel Le Bon
- Scott Bellefeuille
- David Schneider
- Rudolf Kubik
- David Fisher
- David Sterne
- Alice Connor
- Alice Vese
- Berwick Kaler
- Howie Lotker
- Jan Kuzelka
- Vaclav Krejci
- Jan Nemejovsky
- John Hill
- Pebbles
- Curtis Hanson
- Terry Glass
- Brian Helgeland
- Mark Holding
- Gilly Poole
- Allan Graf
- Tim Burke
- Caroline Harris
- Francine Maisler
- Tony Burrough
- Mark Kebby
- Kevin Stitt
- Richard Greatrex
