• All Is True (2018)

    The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters....

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All Is True
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metacriticBased on 32 Critics
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Release Date: December 21st, 2018

DVD Release Date: August 13th, 2019

PG-13 |1 hr 41 min

Plot Summary

The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Lydia Wilson, Hadley Fraser, Jack Colgrave Hirst, John Dagleish, Sean Foley, Ian McKellen

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Genres: Historical drama

Production Co: TKBC

Keywords: Husband, Transformation, Tense, Quest, Emotional, House, Creative, Moving, England, Wife, Family, Daughter, Amusing

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  • 80
    Jonathan RomneyScreen International

    A tender, intelligent imagining of the playwright in retirement. show more

  • 50
    Slate

    All Is True does not work as a film, but as a memorial to a writer whose shadow we are still working in today, and an expression of yearning to know who he really was, it has an odd vitality that cannot be completely dismissed. show more

  • 60
    Todd McCarthyThe Hollywood Reporter

    A labor of love, to be sure, but a simple, small-scaled domestic drama with none of the broad appeal of the hugely popular "Shakespeare in Love" of 1998, this thoroughly respectable Sony Classics pickup will command the interest mostly of older-skewing art house habituees. show more

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