Shakespeare in Love (1998)

History’s most-known playwright is the subject of a story himself in John Madden’s period comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love. With an all-star cast of Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, and Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love explores a fictional romance during Shakespeare’s writing of Romeo and Juliet. (R, 2h, 3min.)