Title: The Tempest
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Starring: Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, David Strathairn, Alan Cumming
Release Date: 25/02/2011
Production Country: United States
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Running time: 110 min.
Production Year: 2010
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 f?r ??m? nudity, suggestive content ?nd scary images.
Distributor: Walt Disney UK
Official Website: www.tempest-themovie.com/
Budget: $20,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue: $261,916 (USA) (13 February 2011)
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Synopsis: In Julie Taymor’s version of ‘The Tempest,’ the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor’s version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it’s a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.
