ANONYMOUS

Year: 2011
USA & UK: Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Jamie Campbell Bower
Director: Roland Emmerich
Countries: UK / Germany
USA & UK: 130 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some violence and sexual content
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex, violence and language
USA Release Date: 28 October 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 28 October 2011


Synopsis

Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, ANONYMOUS speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare?

Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature.

ANONYMOUS poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when scandalous political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles lusting for the power of the throne were brought to light in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.