As You Like It (2006 film)

As You Like It
Film poster
Directed byKenneth Branagh
Screenplay byKenneth Branagh
Based onAs You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Produced byKenneth Branagh
Judy Hofflund
Simon Moseley
Starring
CinematographyRoger Lanser
Edited byNeil Farrell
Music byPatrick Doyle
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • 1 September 2006 (2006-09-01) (Italy)
  • 21 August 2007 (2007-08-21) (United States)
  • 21 September 2007 (2007-09-21) (United Kingdom)
Running time
127 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$563,162[1]

As You Like It is a 2006 romance film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film stars Romola Garai, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline, Adrian Lester, Janet McTeer, Alfred Molina, David Oyelowo and Brian Blessed in a dual role.

The film transferred the play's setting to a late 19th-century European colony in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. Filming took place at Shepperton Film Studios and at the never-before-filmed gardens of Wakehurst Place. Produced by The Shakespeare Film Company and financed by HBO Films and BBC Films, it is the fifth Shakespeare adaptation by Branagh, and the only one not to feature Branagh himself in the cast, though he has a vocal cameo towards the end of the film.

The film premiered in Italy on 1 September 2006 before being released by Picturehouse in the United States on 21 August 2007 and by Lionsgate in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2007. It received mixed reviews.

  1. ^ a b "As You Like It". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 6 June 2022.