Synopsis
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
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Cast
- Jim BroadbentW. S. Gilbert
- Allan CordunerSir Arthur Sullivan
- Timothy SpallRichard Temple (The Mikado)
- Lesley ManvilleLucy Gilbert
- Ron CookRichard D'Oyly Carte
- Wendy NottinghamHelen Lenoir
- Kevin McKiddDurward Lely (Nanki-Poo)
- Shirley HendersonLeonora Braham (Yum-Yum)
- Dorothy AtkinsonJessie Bond
- Martin SavageGeorge Grossmith
Recommendations
- 100
Philadelphia Inquirer
A triumph. - 100
USA Today
One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise. - 90
Chicago Reader
Thoroughly researched, unobtrusively upholstered, this beautifully assured entertainment about Victorian England is a string of delights. - 90
L.A. Weekly
We never seem to be looking at actors, but at people; never at scenes, but at life unrehearsed. - 90
Newsweek
Filled with delicious backstage drama, and superb actors reveling in the opportunity to play their 19th-century counterparts. - 90
Film.com
Leigh and his solid cast make sure that inside jokes translate to a broad audience, and that their rendering of the back-stage drama is smart, engrossing and often very funny. - 90
Slate
A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless. - 90
Village Voice
Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.
