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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   248 votes
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Director:
Julian Farino
Writer:
Nick Dear (writer)
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Release Date:
22 October 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Romance
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
A poetic failure more (6 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jonny Lee Miller ... Lord Byron
Philip Glenister ... William Fletcher
Stephen Campbell Moore ... John Cam Hobhouse
Natasha Little ... Augusta Leigh

Vanessa Redgrave ... Lady Melbourne

Julie Cox ... Annabella Milbanke
Camilla Power ... Lady Caroline Lamb
Oliver Dimsdale ... Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sally Hawkins ... Mary Shelley
Michael Elwyn ... John Murray
Penny Downie ... Lady Judith Milbanke
David Ryall ... Sir Ralph Milbanke
Mali Harries ... Ann Rood
Branka Katic ... Teresa Guiccioli
Oliver Milburn ... Scrope Davies
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
147 min (2 parts)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Netherlands:12 | Greece:K-13 | Singapore:M18
Filming Locations:
Syon House, Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK more
Company:
BBC Drama Group more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The cream silk gown with sheer black sleeves Camilla Power (Lady Caroline Lamb) wears at the ball is the same costume Julia Davis (Elizabeth Elliot) wears at Kellynch Hall in Persuasion (2007) (TV). more
Quotes:
Annabella Milbanke: What did you mean when you said you've done evil?
Lord Byron: Nothing, I was bored.
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User Comments

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7 out of 26 people found the following comment useful.
A poetic failure, 11 September 2006
2/10
Author: benbrae76

I've always been enthusiastic about period dramas, an art form in which the BBC has excelled in the past. This presentation of "Byron" was unbelievable. Unbelievably bad! The script was dreadful, the acting uninspired, and all the characters woefully insipid. Apparently Byron was "mad bad and dangerous to know", and set the ladies hearts all-a-flutter. Not in this production. Here he appeared as a tawdry jumped-up little squirt instead of a fiery hero of womenfolk and the Greek struggle for independence. It is said that Byron walked with a limp. This portrayal of the man was just limp all over.

I watched the whole two and a half hours waiting for something to spark into life. Not a splutter, not even a glimmer. It was utter tedium, if not downright boredom, from start to finish.

Having the opinion that no-one will ever better the Bard of Avon, I also believe that Byron's poetry is over-revered and to my mind should be flung on the back burner, and this dramatisation of his life should be accorded the same treatment.

I think the BBC lost its nous with this one

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