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Mood:
Touching Witty Captivating Humorous
Plot:
Buddies Musician's Life Showbiz Artists and Showbiz Lifestyle Partners Friends
Genres:
Comedy Drama Music Period
Time/Period:
19th Century Victorian
Place:
England Europe Theater
Praise:
Award Winner Critically Acclaimed Oscar Winner Prestigious Awards
Humor:
Dry Humor
Style:
Talky
Attitudes:
Semi Serious Realistic
Score:
Opera

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Topsy-Turvy, 1999

Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner

Directed by: Mike Leigh

Written by: Mike Leigh

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese

Country: UK

Runtime: 160 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.2

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Topsy-Turvy can be described as witty, captivating, and touching. The plot revolves around showbiz, the life of a musician, and partners. Its comic aspect comes from dry humor. Topsy-Turvy's main genres are drama, comedy, and period. In terms of style, it is talky. In approach, it is realistic. Topsy-Turvy is set, at least in part, in a theater. It is located in England. It takes place in the Victorian era. The soundtrack of Topsy-Turvy is opera. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed and an Oscar winner.

Summary of Topsy-Turvy

Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director's most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before the conception and production of the pair's THE MIKADO (first staged in 1885), Leigh's film rings true with an authenticity that transports the audience back to Victorian England with remarkable ease. Leigh, who comes from an extensive theater background, researched this period in English history exhaustively, from etiquette to the costumes to the production numbers. Both Jim Broadbent (as the negative-minded William Schwenk Gilbert) and Allan Corduner (as the "genius," Arthur Sullivan) deliver impassioned, entirely believable performances, as do the supporting players--particularly Kevin McKidd, Lesley Manville, and Leigh regular Timothy Spall. Notably different from the director's previous brutally realistic, modern day examinations (such as NAKED and SECRETS AND LIES), Leigh's film bears genuine affection for the work of Gilbert & Sullivan, which shines through in every frame. Successfully blending comedy, music, historical drama, and human emotion, TOPSY-TURVY proves that Leigh is not just a brilliant chronicler of modern class conflicts in England; he is a thorough, sensitive filmmaker with a tight grasp on the human condition.

Details

Language:	English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
Country:	UK
Release date:	15 December 1999
Runtime:	160 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Lindy Hemming for Best Costume Design at the 2000 Academy Awards

Chris Blundell for Best Makeup at the 2000 Academy Awards

Trefor Proud for Best Makeup at the 2000 Academy Awards

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Jim Broadbent

as W. S. Gilbert

Allan Corduner

as Sir Arthur Sullivan

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Jim Broadbent as W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan to Jim Broadbent 's W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

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Entertainment Weekly

Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises. Full Review

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by: Lisa Schwarzbaum

USA Today

One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise. Full Review

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by: Mike Clark

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I suppose I'm just a drama f@g...

but this movie is a dream. So much silk and singing and silliness. It starts kind of slow, in a way, with bawdy Gilbert and stick-in-the-mud Sullivan. But once Sullivan gets that Japanese bug in his bonnet, you can't stop that librettist. The film... Read and rate it

22.June.2009
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by: Laura
Laura rated this movie10/10Must See

Count me as one of the many reviewers who finds this movie too long. There are far too many scenes that neither advance the plot nor give further insight into the characters. Of course, there are also many scenes that _do_ advance the plot, and... Read and rate it

11.June.2009
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by: jostrem
jostrem rated this movie0/10

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