The Winslow Boy
- Original title
- The Winslow Boy
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- David Mamet. Play: Terence Rattigan
- Cast
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- Nigel Hawthorne
- Rebecca Pidgeon
- Jeremy Northam
- Guy Edwards
- Colin Stinton
- Gemma Jones
- Matthew Pidgeon
- Aden Gillett
- Sarah Flind
- Sara Stewart
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Costume Drama. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. 1910s. Remake
- Movie Groups
- Terence Rattigan Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice. After defeat in the military court of appeals, Arthur and Catherine go to Sir Robert Morton, a brilliant, cool barrister and M.P., who examines Ronnie and suggests that they take the matter before Parliament to seek permission to sue the Crown. They do, which keeps Ronnie's story on the front page and keeps Catherine in Sir Robert's ken.
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- Critics' reviews
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David Mamet has adapted and directed Terence Rattigan's 1946 play, which was based on a true story, with a fidelity so profound that one doesn't know whether to be amazed or depressed by it."
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"Very English, very period and very polite"
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"Mamet illustrates that he can work as capably from someone else's script as he can from his own, and that his talent as a director is not eclipsed by his ability as a writer."
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"Mamet turns out an immaculately staged, crisply paced, and elegantly acted movie. It's also a tad bloodless, but you can't have everything"
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"Genteel moviemaking with modern overtones, The Winslow Boy is especially good at the visual re-creation of its time"
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