Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.
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Julien TempleWriter:
Frank Cottrell Boyce
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Linus Roache | ... | Samuel Coleridge | |
| John Hannah | ... | William Wordsworth | |
| Samantha Morton | ... | Sara Coleridge | |
| Emily Woof | ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Emma Fielding | ... | Mary Wordsworth | |
| Andy Serkis | ... | John Thelwall | |
| Samuel West | ... | Robert Southey | |
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Michael Harbour | ... | Walsh |
| William Scott-Masson | ... | Tom Poole | |
| Clive Merrison | ... | Dr. Gillman | |
| Dexter Fletcher | ... | Humphry Davy | |
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Guy Lankester | ... | Lord Byron |
| Andrea Lowe | ... | Edith Southey | |
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Jacqueline Defferary | ... | Miss Holland |
| Andy de la Tour | ... | Andrew Crosse | |
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Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.
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child | lord byron character | samuel taylor coleridge character | william wordsworth character | voice over poetry |Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
18 April 2001 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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$15,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Arts Council of England, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Film Council See more »
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned 'roud walks on and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tred. 'Tis a strange place this limbo, not a place yet named so.
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Written by Jeff Lynne
Published by EMI Songs Ltd.
Performed by Lisa
Courtesy of Almighty Records, London
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The surname of Poet Laureate Robert Southey is mispronounced consistently by all actors and actresses throughout this movie. It should be "SUH-thee", not "SOUTH-ee". See more »Goofs
As they are rolling around from the effects of "Thornapple", the shot of the clouds rolling by show the quick streak of the exhaust of a jet airplane zipping from bottom to top of the picture. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned 'roud walks on and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tred. 'Tis a strange place this limbo, not a place yet named so.
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Crazy Credits
The credits start with one letter, which becomes the name of the person involved. They don't seem to make any sense, but most are letters incorporated in the word PANDAEMONIUM (the last Text before the Cast Listing starts). See more »Soundtracks
XanaduWritten by Jeff Lynne
Published by EMI Songs Ltd.
Performed by Lisa
Courtesy of Almighty Records, London
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I wandered lonely as a cow into the video store. . . and then I rented this film. Alas. I think the director was trying to channel the spirit of Ken Russell while he was making this film. Unfortunately, it was only during the last 15 minutes that the movie took a full bodied lurch into unintentionally comic melodramatic absurdity. With its utter disregard for the historic record, "Pandaemonium" attempts to do for England's greatest Romantic poets what "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" did for the Arthurian legends - but (sadly) without the wit or the humor.
Why is it that so many films about poets fail to convey any essence of poetry? Perhaps if you don't know anything about Wordsworth or Coleridge (or you don't care) you might be satisfied with "Pandaemonium," but I find it impossible to recommend a film that slanders the former while portraying the latter as a slathering dope fiend.
(I did enjoy the "Xanadu" music video shown over the ending credits - now that was truly trashy.)