Ladyhawke

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer Director: Richard Donner Original UK Premiere: 1985 Dvd Release: 4th March, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Ladyhawke is a 1985 film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer & Michelle Pfeiffer. The film is set in medieval Europe. Hauer & Pfeiffer play a castle-guard captain & a noblewoman who fall in love, but are torn apart by means of a curse cast upon them by a corrupt Christian bishop who desires Pfeiffer for himself. By day Hauers character is a human but by night he is a wolf. On the other hand, Pfeiffers charater is human at night but by day she is a hawk. Brodericks character is that of a plucky young thief turned dungeon escapee, who aids the lovers in a dangerous quest to break the supernatural bonds set upon them by the curse.

This lushly produced fantasy has gained a loyal following since its release in 1985, & it gave a welcome boost to the careers of Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer & Rutger Hauer. You have to ignore the overly aggressive music score by Andrew Powell, music director of the Alan Parsons Project & director Richard Donners reckless allowance of anachronistic dialogue & uninspired storytelling, but theres a certain charm to the movies combination of romance & heroism. Broderick plays a young thief who comes to the aid of tragic lovers Isabeau , who is cursed to become a hawk every day at sunrise & Navarre who turns into a wolf at sunset. The curse was cast by an evil sorcerer-bishop , & as Broderick eludes the bishops henchmen, Navarre struggles to conquer the villain, lift the curse & be reunited with his love in human form. The tragedy of this lovers dilemma keeps the movie going, & Broderick is well cast as a young, medieval variation of Woody Allen. ,

Matthew Broderick is an American film & stage actor who is perhaps most widely known for his role as the protagonist in Ferris Buellers Day Off. Brodericks first break came in role in an HB Studio workshop production of Horton Foote s On Valentines Day, playing opposite his father James Broderick, who was a friend of Footes. This was followed by a lead role in the off-Broadway production of Harvey Fierstein s Torch Song Trilogy ; a good review by New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Brighton Beach Memoirs & Biloxi Blues. In between those plays he starred in WarGames, the summer hit of 1983. He returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably in Mel Brooks stage version of The Producers in 2001 & continues to make films. He has won two Tony Awards, in 1983 for his featured role in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs & in 1995 for his leading role in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ! ; he was also nominated for The Producers, with the award going to co-star Nathan Lane. Posters Of Matthew Broderick

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Rutger Hauer is an international movie star. The son of drama teachers Arend & Teunke, he grew up in Amsterdam but at age 15 ran away to the sea & spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician & a carpenter for three years while attending drama classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental acting troupe, which he stayed with for five years before getting the lead role as a swashbuckler in the 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe -like medieval action show. His career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven gave him the lead in Turkish Delight. The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home & within two years, its star was invited to make his English language debut in The Wilby Conspiracy. This film was set in South Africa & starred Michael Caine & Sidney Poitier, it was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid .Hauers supporting role, however, was hardly enough to establish him in Hollywood s eyes & he returned to European film making for several years. Posters Of Armageddon

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Richard Donner is an American film director & also producer through his Donner/ Shuler -Donner Productions company. Born in the Bronx, New York City. He started his career with hopes of acting but quickly moved into directing commercials & making business films. Dead or Alive. He has worked on over twenty-five other television series including, The Fugitive, Get Smart, Wild Wild West, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tales from the Crypt & a famous episode of The Twilight Zone entitled Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. His first film was the cheap military drama X-15 starring Charles Bronson, it was not a great success & he returned to television work. His break-through film was in 1976 with The Omen, produced in the horror boom following The Exorcist. he followed it with the hit Superman in 1980 & has mixed commercial flops & successes since then. He has received little critical appreciation. Posters Of Lethal Weapon 4

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