Richard III
1995
**½
Director: Richard Loncraine
Cast: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr.
This heavy-handed adaptation of Shakespeare's play compares its murderous king with the Nazis. However, like with Baz Luhrmann's
href=/search2.php?query=2290>Romeo and Juliet, there is more to updating a classic than moving the action to the modern time (1930s). Scripted by Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine.
