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Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - Uncut Version (Patreon)

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2026-05-14 01:09:22
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2026-08

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Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Kate Beckinsale, Brain Blessed

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JENNIFER E

I have had a no good, very bad day so to come here to see that Joe and Kevin have gotten to my favorite Shakespearean romp (and bisexual awakening cause Emma Thompson) is a delight!

Youtalkingtome

So glad we could help! I sincerely hope tomorrow is a better day!

Dor

Oh maaaan. People talked a lot of shit about Keanu's casting in this but I remember thinking it was perfect - it made Don Jon a ridiculous rather than threatening character, which is sort of what you want in a comedy. Lets see if that take holds up, I'm sure I haven't seen this in 20 years.

I🖤Kraken

The supporting cast is just incredible. Margaret (Imelda Staunton) you probably know best as the hateful Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter. Leonato, Hero's dad, is national treasure Richard Briers. I highly recommend his old britcom Good Neighbors & 2000 dramedy series Monarch of the Glen. Lastly, Ursula, the older maid, was played by Emma's mom Phyllida Law. You absolutely must watch Alan Rickman's film The Winter Guest starring she and Emma. It's absolutely phenomenal: https://youtu.be/E05YmALsj9Q?si=ei07lc8Hbg0GhIsT

Clare Manion

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! I love this play anyway, but this was such a fun rendition. Although, really, with a cast like that how could it be anything else? Thompson and Branagh were perfect. Keaton was hilarious (is it me, or did his performance here have echoes of Beetlejuice? That’s not a bad thing, it totally worked). And yes, that location - especially the garden - was just to die for. I think I too will be looking for a copy of this movie…that and maybe one of those linen dresses to run around in all summer ;)

Daniel Lydford

Emma Thompson has two Academy Awards One for Best Actress for Howards End - an film set in Edwardian England that she starred opposite Anthony Hopkins One for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense & Sensibility.

Daniel Lydford

I can't decide while watching Emma Thompson, and Kenneth Branagh argue is the reason they got married, or the reason they got divorced.

I🖤Kraken

Branagh cheating with Helena Bonham Carter is the reason they got divorced...

Youtalkingtome

I haven’t seen Howard’s End, but I knew and had completely forgotten about In the Name of the Father.

Laura Dawson

Michael Keaton's second in command is played by Ben Elton, who co-wrote seasons 2-4 of Blackadder with Richard Curtis (Curtis also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill and the 90s comedy sitcom The Vicar of Dibley). Just a little FYI since you're also watching Blackadder.

Youtalkingtome

It really did have Beetlejuice vibes. This was such a fun hang

Laura Dawson

I couldn’t find it on the pinned list of movies: have you guys seen Sense and Sensibility (1995)?

Pam Nail

I've always read Don Jon as a comedic villain. His "let me be as I am" speech is almost camp.

Pam Nail

- I've always loved Keanu in this. Maybe it's accidental, but he plays the cartoonish, over-the-top villain remarkably well. I don't think his lines are cut anymore than any other character's in the play. And he wisely doesn't try to do a British accent, as he did in Dracula the year before. - Denzel did Malcolm X the year before this. In 1993 alone, he had this movie, The Pelican Brief, and Philadelphia. - Ugh, Claudio. It's not just his gullibility; he waits until they're in front of everyone and humiliates and assaults her. I do love that Claudio has shown himself to be so gullible that Leonato knows he'll buy the "other bride" scenario. - Michael Keaton is my favorite Dogberry. Every line he gets is such delightful nonsense, and he nails it every time.

Tarryn Harris

In reference to Margaret and why she didnt come forward. I think the reason for that or why Shakespeare didnt even explore that avenue is that the word of a woman in that time period held almost no weight. Nothing Hero says is believe by the men in the story (the ones that hold the power) and she is a respected noble woman. It is very unlikely that Margaret's confession would have been believe or even acknowledge on a worthwhile level.

Kathy A

Another great Branagh-Thompson collab is Dead Again, costarring Derek Jacobi and Andy Garcia, with a wonderful uncredited cameo by someone you will definitely recognize! It’s very Hitchcockian.

Suzanne Whyte

Hero is a lot more forgiving than I would be. There’s no way I would have married him after that. Even before the awful wedding scene he didn’t even do his own wooing.

Actuarial Lurker

You needed TWO men in Biblical times to testify in a legal matter- an issue that the New Testament, of all things, tried to address by having the first witnesses to the Resurrection (the Gardener outside the Tomb as Christ in disguise) being the women who went to the Cave and found the Empty Tomb and see the Gardener and THAT being enough to have their report cause a couple of the Apostles to run there and validate it. Despite Christ essentially granting women power in that scene we STILL had him say from The Cross to the Virgin Mary and Apostle John: "Woman, behold your son" and "Son, behold your mother," (John 19:26-27) since he basically was giving custody of his widowed Mother (since St. Joseph had already died) to John so he would care for her.... By Elizabethan times women had some voice in legal disputes mainly due to the Queen HERSELF exercising royal privilege to have her decrees have force of law, If you were a married woman ("feme covert") your husband had to permit you to testify and "vouch" it wasn't gossip under the doctrine of "coverture". If you were single or a widow THEN your testimony bore ALMOST equal weight under "Feme Sole" rules. It wasn't until the 1970s in the US that women could open bank accounts, get credit cards etc without their father or husband co-signing Yes I've been married close to 30 years to an old schoold Feminist https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/coverture-word-you-probably-dont-know-should

Pam Nail

Someone bought a reaction to it. It's about 20 movies down the list from the most recent one they've uploaded.

Erin Mileur

About Keanu and Dracula he later admitted doing that role he was completely exhausted he had just done 3 movies back to back and Francis Ford Coppola said that Keanu Reeves was so nice that he didn't have the heart to replace him.

Allison O

I was absolutely obsessed with this movie when it came out. Totally holds up. I have to say after not watching it for at least a decade - Emma Thompson is chewing the hell out of every line, and she’s talented enough to make it work. And Keanu is fine! He’s fine!

Allison O

PS they were already married at the time. They’d done several other movies together. This one includes a lot of their sort of troupe, including Imelda Staunton and Emma’s mom, but for a great movie that includes most of their college buddies, try Peter’s Friends.

DelGuy03

"Hey nonny nonny" is a pretty common refrain in English songs of that period. One of Ophelia's songs when she goes mad has those words, so that's probably what you remember from Kate Winslet's performance in the Branagh Hamlet. But the song "Sigh No More, Ladies" occurs only in Much Ado. Did you notice that the whole final song (3 or 4 verses, and all over the estate and into the air) is done in ONE shot? My brain hurts at all the rehearsals and false starts it must have taken.

DelGuy03

There's a more recent movie of Much Ado About Nothing, made in black and white by Joss Whedon, and using many of the actors who have worked with him in other projects. The sexual attitudes jar even worse in a present-day setting of course, but it has some fine features. Most of all, I think, Nathan Fillion (in the role played by Michael Keaton here) -- he plays it very differently, a self-consciously slick Secret Service sort of guy, and makes each of his misused words land hilariously.

Michelle Taylor

Emma Thompson’s Oscar Golden Globe list: Oscars (Academy Awards)Winner: Best Actress, Howards End (1992).Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay, Sense and Sensibility (1995).Nominations: Best Actress (The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility), Best Supporting Actress (In the Name of the Father).Golden GlobesWinner: Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Howards End (1993).Winner: Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Sense and Sensibility (1996).Nominations: She has earned multiple nominations, including for Saving Mr. Banks, Late Night, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.

sharkey197

When this film came out, I had been teaching honors sophomore English for 20 years and the Shakespeare play was always Julius Caesar. I was sick of old Romans. So I switched to Much Ado. The play is extremely bawdy which the kids could relate to. We watched the film while reading the play. When kids laugh out loud at Shakespeare, you know you;ve got a hit. Nobody missed Julius.

Ben Gilbert

Emma won an Best Actress Oscar for Howard's End and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility. She acted with Branagh in around 4 films until their divorce in 1995. (Branagh was having an affair with Helena Bonham Carter.) They also did some TV together. And the actress flirting with Brian Blessed at the beginning looks so much like Emma Thompson she must be related.

Ben Gilbert

They also did Henry V and Peter's Friends together.

danzthename

My friends and I saw this in the theater in high school and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed the soundtrack a lot too. Big nostalgia watching it again. Emma Thompson could read the dictionary to me and I'd be mesmerized.

Jamie Morgan

His whole "I'm chillin' as a villain" vibe reminds me a lot of Disney villains from the 90s - they know they're the bad guy, why even deny it?

Jamie Morgan

I remember studying this play in school and arguing that Claudio was an awful man, too gullible to the words of other men, and the way he treated Hero on their wedding day was WAY over the top and showed his true colours. My English teacher said I was wrong, that Claudio was a noble gentleman who was misguided by love and some bad actors. That teacher later got fired for being drunk on the job, and soon after that got arrested for DV against his wife. I'm sure those two things are unrelated... Anyway...I love Michael Keaton in this, and pairing him up with Ben Elton was a stroke of genius. Dogberry and his men give Blackadder/Monty Python vibes, so it's absolutely pitch perfect!

Lola Lirola

Omg, this is fantastic!! My weekend is saved. Thank you to the person who bought it. This is one of those legendary movies where absolutely *everyone* is at their absolute peak hotness, it's almost unbearable. Fun evening for me!

Lola Lirola

For anyone who wants more Much Ado, I heartily recommend this recording of the stage show (you can watch the whole thing for free at the link!) with an all-Black cast that has Danielle Brooks absolutely *killing it* as Beatrice. They do the Luhrman Romeo and Juliet thing of having a modern setting, but then doing the original verse, and it works so well! Everyone is hilarious, and top of their game. Here's the link! https://archive.org/details/xebpsxfn_gper4413-mp4-720p-3000k_202009

I🖤Kraken

Jessica Brown Findlay as Ophelia in the 2017 movie was the best Ophelia that I've ever seen. That woman is amazing and I highly recommend it.

Lola Lirola

Re: Other Branagh Shakesperian adaptations... He did an atrocious adaptation of Love's Labour Lost with Alicia Silverstone as the lead where if you thought Keanu was struggling with the verse, this will make you faint. He also made the bold choice of setting it in Nazi Germany, a decision that backfires spectacularly. It's also... a musical. Just unhinged. A notoriously bad movie. Worth watching if you are curious, but it's definitely one that Branagh would want everyone to forget!

Lola Lirola

Oh, by the way, did any of you recognize Margaret, the "decoy" to Hero in the window, she of infamous "cop a feel" moment, as Imelda Staunton, who played Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter??

DelGuy03

Maybe one reason she wasn't nominated for Much Ado is that she was nominated for TWO other movies that same year: The Remains of the Day (leading) and In the Name of the Father (supporting). That was quite a year for her. The scene in which Denzel proposes to her, and she ever-so-gently turns him down, ought to be shown in acting classes. What beautiful nuances from both of them. And his final line, watching her leave, "By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady," just puts the final button on that lovely interchange.

Lola Lirola

I will have to praise one of my theater teachers as the best Dogberry ever! He was a professional actor, not just school productions, and he was doing Much Ado one year, so we all went to see him, and for my word, he was better than Keaton! He said he got into the chaos rhythm of the character by trying to do long division in his head while reciting his lines, and it really worked (imo) better than MK's drunken energy.