Stage Beauty (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and moderate sex references
- Run time: 1 hour 50 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3rd September 2004
- Starring: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett
- Directed by: Richard Eyre
- Distributor: Momentum Theatrical
Plot Synopsis
Set in the 1660's at a time when in live theatre women's roles were played by men, Edward 'Ned' Kynaston is England's most celebrated leading lady, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But when Charles II is tired of seeing the same old performers, the ruler allows real women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women's parts. Ned becomes a virtual nobody, virtually overnight and seems headed for suicide till his ex-dresser turned actress Maria takes it upon herself to make a man of him again.
"This is a bawdy and colourful Restoration-era romp, stuffed full of puns sexual innuendo and propelled by some tremendous character turns" - Screen International