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Love's Labour's Lost ()

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An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.
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The King
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The Princess
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Rosaline
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Berowne
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Maria
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Longaville
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Dumaine
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Katherine
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Sir Nathaniel
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Holofernia
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Jacquanetta
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Constable Dull
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Costard
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Armado
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Moth
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Mercade
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Boyet
Alfred Bell ...
Gaston
Daisy Gough ...
Isabelle
Graham Hubbard ...
Eugene
Paul Moody ...
Jaques
Yvonne Riley ...
Beatrice
Iain Stuart Robertson ...
Hippolyte
Emma Scott ...
Celimene
Amy Tez ...
Sophie
Richard Joseph ...
Dancer
Nikki Abraham ...
Dancer
Catherine Dugdale ...
Dancer
Michele Du Verney ...
Dancer
Trudi Swift ...
Dancer
Jonathan Blazer ...
Dancer
Colin Barrett ...
Dancer
Bryn Walters ...
Dancer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dan Farrell ...
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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Nazi Youth (uncredited)
Tim Packham ...
Medic (uncredited)

Directed by

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Kenneth Branagh

Written by

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William Shakespeare ... (play)
 
Kenneth Branagh ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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David Barron ... producer
Kenneth Branagh ... producer
Andrea Calderwood ... associate producer
Guy East ... executive producer
Alexis Lloyd ... executive producer
Rick Schwartz ... associate producer
Nigel Sinclair ... executive producer
Bob Weinstein ... executive producer
Harvey Weinstein ... executive producer

Music by

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Patrick Doyle

Cinematography by

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Alex Thomson

Editing by

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Dan Farrell
Neil Farrell

Editorial Department

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Andrea Isaac ... second assistant editor
Julian Pryce ... second assistant editor
Geraint Huw Reynolds ... editor trainee

Casting By

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Nina Gold
Randi Hiller

Production Design by

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Tim Harvey

Art Direction by

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Mark Raggett

Set Decoration by

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Celia Bobak

Costume Design by

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Anna Buruma

Makeup Department

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Jeffrey Haines ... hairdresser
Carol Hemming ... hair department head
Catherine Heys ... makeup artist
Amanda Knight ... key makeup artist
Joseph Koniak ... hair stylist
Clare Le Vesconte ... makeup artist
Zoe Tahir ... assistant hair stylist

Production Management

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Bernard Bellew ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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David Gilchrist ... assistant director
Sallie Hard ... additional second assistant director (as Sallie Anne Hard)
Claire Hughes ... assistant director
Ben Johnson ... assistant director
Simon Moseley ... first assistant director
Michael Queen ... assistant director (as Mike Queen)

Art Department

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John Burn ... carpenter
Paul Cheesman ... props
Mark Geeson ... trainee dressing prop
Matt Gray ... set designer (as Matthew Gray)
Richard Lyon ... construction buyer
Brian Pegg ... plasterer
Michael Redding ... construction coordinator
Daniel Thompson ... carpenter
Iain White ... art department standby

Sound Department

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Sandy Buchanan ... adr mixer
Martin Cantwell ... sound editor
Stephen Gilmour ... sound playback
Peter Glossop ... production sound mixer
James Harris ... third man sound
John Hayward ... re-recording mixer
Shaun Mills ... boom operator
Chris Nuttall ... adr recordist
Peter Pennell ... supervising sound editor
Simon Price ... additional dialogue editor / additional foley editor
Richard Pryke ... assistant re-recording mixer
Richard Street ... preview re-recording mixer
Ruth Sullivan ... foley artist
Dan Edelstein ... supervising sound editor: US release (uncredited)

Special Effects by

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Stuart Brisdon ... special effects supervisor
Andy Collings ... special effects technician
Nik Cooper ... special effects technician
James Davis III ... special effects technician
Mark Haddenham ... special effects senior technician

Visual Effects by

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Angus Cameron ... digital effects supervisor
Max Dennison ... matte artist
Antony Hunt ... visual effects supervisor
Rick Mietkowski ... visual effects cameraman
Alice Mitchell ... compositor
Lynn Perez ... Domino operator
Daniel Pettipher ... digital artist
Caroline Garrett ... digital artist (uncredited)

Stunts

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Ray De-Haan ... stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department

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Danny Espey ... electrician
Perry Evans ... gaffer
Bill Geddes ... camera grip
Andy Hopkins ... grip
Tony Jackson ... camera operator
Mark Jury ... camera trainee
Nic Milner ... camera operator: "a" camera
Clive Prior ... first assistant camera
Gordon Segrove ... focus puller: underwater unit
Laurie Sparham ... still photographer
Chyna Thomson ... first assistant camera: "a" camera
Tammo van Hoorn ... clapper loader

Casting Department

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Lynn Glaser ... casting assistant (as Lynn Emblem)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Robert Allsopp ... costume prop
Maurizio Basile ... wardrobe assistant
Annie Crawford ... costume supervisor
Heather Leat ... assistant costume designer
Barbara Ohren ... costumer
Charlie Sadler ... costume assistant (as Charlotte Sadler)
Liz Dann ... wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)

Music Department

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Lawrence Ashmore ... orchestrator
John Bell ... orchestrator
Mark Berrow ... musician: violin
Richard Bissill ... musician: French horn
Richard Cookson ... musician: viola
Brian Gascoigne ... orchestrator
Carl Johnson ... orchestrator
Gerard McCann ... music editor
Maggie Rodford ... music producer
James Shearman ... conductor / orchestrator / songs arranger
Jamie Talbot ... alto saxophone
Rick Wentworth ... orchestrator
Skaila Kanga ... musician: harp (uncredited)
Paul Kegg ... musician: cello (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Caroline Sax ... script supervisor

Transportation Department

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Mark Oliver ... picture car coordinator
Terry Pritchard ... driver: kenneth branagh
Barry Stevenson ... unit driver

Additional Crew

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Ben Blanco ... assistant to producer
Jon R. Brown ... production assistant
Gavin Charlton ... sous chef
Stanley Donen ... presenter: US release
Sally Hilton ... assistant to producer
Stuart Hopps ... choreographer
Russell Jackson ... text consultant (as Dr. Russell Jackson)
Zeb Lamb ... floor runner
Andy Mayson ... executive: Intermedia Films
Martin Scorsese ... presenter: US release
Phil Stoole ... assistant: Kenneth Branagh
Rebecca West ... Publicity Assistant
Mike Woodley ... aerial coordinator
Michael J. Harker ... completion bond representative (uncredited)
David Monteath ... voice actor (uncredited)
Jason Burke Sutter ... international sales (uncredited)

Thanks

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John Ptak ... special thanks

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honor is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining, but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings. Written by Tender Branson

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Taglines A New Spin on the Old Song and Dance See more »
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Also Known As
  • Peines d'amour perdues (France)
  • Verlorene Liebesmüh' (Germany)
  • Treballs d'amor perduts (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Trabajos de amor perdidos (Spain)
  • Agapis agonas agonos (Greece)
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Runtime
  • 93 min
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Box Office

Budget $13,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend United Kingdom GBP143,649, 02 Apr 2000

Did You Know?

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Trivia The actors did their own singing. See more »
Goofs While the movie's concentrating on what is obviously WW2, one of the paper shown announces the end of the war on November 11, which is in fact the date of the end of WW1 in 1918 (the end of WW2 being on May 8, 1945 in Europe and August 15 in Asia). See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Gone in Sixty Seconds/Groove/Sunshine/Love's Labour's Lost/Grass (2000). See more »
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Quotes Berowne: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, from whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. O, we have made a vow to study, lords, and in that vow we have forsworn our books; For when would you, my liege, or you, or you in leaden contemplation have found out such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes of beauty's tutors have enriched you with? Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, and therefore, finding barren practisers, scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil; But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, lives not alone immured in the brain but with the motion of all elements courses as swift as thought in every power and gives to every power a double power, above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye: A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound. Love's feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails. Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste, for valour, is not Love a Hercules, still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical as bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony.
[begins to sing the song "Cheek to Cheek"]
Berowne: Heaven, /I'm in heaven. /And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak...
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