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Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard. The film centers on a timid night-shift morgue employee whose life is turned upside down by a new co-worker who fancies himself a free-spirited entrepreneur. It stars Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, [2] and Shelley Long.
Her lines spoken at the end of Act V, Scene I are the inspiration for the title of the novel Brave New World. Clare Savage, a protagonist of Michelle Cliff's novel No Telephone to Heaven, is frequently seen to be a modernised Miranda. [21] Miranda is featured in the 2019 novella Miranda in Milan, which imagines the events after The Tempest.
Many beloved romance-focused movies have taken inspiration from the Bard himself: William Shakespeare. 10 Things I Hate About You, the 1999 cult classic that starred Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger ...
The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare ' s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. [1] [2] [3] As of November 2023, the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but not yet released ...
Part arthouse cinema, part unconventional road-trip movie, "My Own Private Idaho" is a landmark film in New Queer Cinema, an early 1990s movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking. 4. '10 ...
Caliban (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n / KAL-i-ban), the subhuman son of the sea witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: [1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being
Watching a Christmas movie over the holidays is much like hearing Mariah Carey playing on the radio: it's inevitable. That said, few things capture the spirit of the season better than a festive ...
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V of England.