Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical, Period Piece, Prostitution, Biography
Tagline: Gilbert & Sullivan & So Much More
Plot: Topsy-Turvy is the new film from award-winning writer/director Mike Leigh. The British filmmaker has, in his works, brought filmgoers into intimate contact with ordinary Londoners navigating extraordinary emotional territory. With Topsy-Turvy, Leigh leaps back in time to grant filmgoers an audience with two Londoners whose lives were marked by extraordinary creativity: Gilbert and Sullivan. William Schwenck Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) is the librettist, writing the words. Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) is the composer, writing the music. Gilbert is the very model of a 19th Century British gentleman, an overly proper married man certain that he knows best–which he often does. Sullivan lives a freer life, almost libertine by comparison, but there is a seriousness of purpose in him. For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. Their popular comic operas have recouped handsomely for the successful Savoy Theatre; impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte (Ron Cook) himself is a stabilizing influence, gently but firmly overseeing the two men. But, in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theatre trade, their latest work "Princess Ida" receives lukewarm press. Sullivan wants to quit and compose more serious music, but the two are
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Dexter Fletcher
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Elephant Man, Doom |
 | Timothy Spall
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky |
 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
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The Witches, The Lawless Heart, A Summer Story | | | |
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