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variety.com - 2/28/2008

The Other Boleyn Girl Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie The Other Boleyn Girl

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A Sony Pictures Entertainment (in North America)/Focus Features (international) release of a Universal Pictures Intl., Columbia Pictures (U.S.) presentation, in association with BBC Films and Relativity Media, of a Ruby Films (U.K.)/Scott Rudin (U.S.) production. Produced by Alison Owen. Executive producers, Rudin, David M. Thompson. Co-producer, Mark Cooper. Directed by Justin Chadwick. ...

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Gothamist — ... , adapted from a bestselling novel about the 16th Century Tudor court. Portman and Johansson play the legendary Boleyn sisters, Eric Bana is Henry VIII, and Variety’s Derek Elley calls it “sexy,” with a “fast-moving final act of plot reversals and rolling heads.” And Christina Ricci stars in Penelope, a cutesy modern-day fairy tale about a cloistered socialite (Ricci) who’s stuck with a pig nose thanks to an aristocratic ancestor’s curse. The ...

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Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — ... : "It is ridiculous, but imagined with humour and gusto: a very diverting gallop through the heritage landscape." And Variety says director Justin Chadwick dishes up "a sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game". Everyone agrees that it all looks fantastic, especially the two leads. Scarlett Johansson (Mary, the good blonde sister) and Natalie Portman (Anne, the bad brunette one) as the two leading ladies are, ...