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A Knight's Tale
starring Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser
directed by Brian Helgeland

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• "No matter what, a man can change his stars!"
  Sometime in the early 1370s, six months in the life of English writer Geoffrey Chaucer went unaccounted. A KNIGHT'S TALE - an earnest, historical epic movie (okay, not really) - ventures a tongue-in-cheek answer to that mild conundrum. But, firstly, the film gravitates towards the young peasant squire, William Thatcher, who fears of wasting his life away as a humble nothing. When his knight is fatally injured during a joust, William seizes an opening for self-betterment. With the help of his reluctant... more info

• I laughed so much.
  The movie is FUNNY. The movie doesn't pretend to be historically accurate, so don't go there if that's what you want to see.
  It's a fun movie, a funny movie. And I expect I'll sit down and watch it every now and then to enjoy a good laugh.

• A Knight's Tale
  I collected all Heath Ledger's movies after his unexpected and untimely death, this one was the BEST! This movie is very clever and done quite well! It has some modern things mixed with the days of old medeval times. GREAT MOVIE!!

• My lords, my Ladies, and everybody else here ... not sitting on a cushion! ...
  
  Well ... a good seven years has now passed since this film was in the theatres and it holds up just as fine as it did the very first time I saw it.
  The Reception ...
  The first and most striking aspect of this film was the amount of antipathy that was generated by Carter Burwell's insightful use of modern music in a period comedy /drama. Unfortunately this created so much backlash, and so much hatred amongst the viewers that hordes of haters flocked to the internet to post hundreds of pages... more info

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