The Other Boleyn Girl

    The Other Boleyn Girl
    2008

    Synopsis

    A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

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    Cast

    • Natalie PortmanAnne Boleyn
    • Scarlett JohanssonMary Boleyn
    • Eric BanaHenry Tudor
    • Jim SturgessGeorge Boleyn
    • Mark RylanceSir Thomas Boleyn
    • Kristin Scott ThomasLady Elizabeth Boleyn
    • David MorrisseyThomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
    • Benedict CumberbatchWilliam Carey
    • Oliver ColemanHenry Percy
    • Ana TorrentKatherine of Aragon

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      A classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite.
    • 70

      Variety

      A sexy, good-looking political bodice-ripper with an almost flawless cast at the top of its game.
    • 70

      L.A. Weekly

      Stuck for years playing young women who are the idealized object of male desire (Portman and Johansson)-- flaw-free and, in Johansson's case, barely conscious -- they come alive in The Other Boleyn Girl, as if being bound up in costumer Sandy Powell's exquisite gowns has freed them from the tighter constraints of their own beauty.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      Works both as an engagingly sordid meditation on protofeminism and contemporized sisterhood set in a time and a place where either/or were grounds for, at the very least, defenestration.
    • 63

      Chicago Tribune

      Eric Bana doesn’t have much to do as Henry VIII except play the monarch as an overgrown spoiled brat. He is, however, awfully nice to look at.
    • 63

      Premiere

      Two-hours of trashy eye-candy that, while fast and loose with the truth, functions as a perfectly adequate divertissement in a time of year when studios tend to unleash their worst.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Shot in high definition and filmed at many historic locations, the film somehow still lacks the splendor of an epic, and its urgency to get on with the next plot point leaves much unexplained while context goes out the window.
    • 60

      Slate

      For a movie whose story hinges almost entirely on sex, The Other Boleyn Girl is disappointingly demure.

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