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Anonymous

2011 · Movie · 131 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer45%as of 2022-05-29
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic50/100as of 2024-03-23

What it is

Anonymous is a 2011 period drama film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts, and suggests he was the actual author of William Shakespeare's plays. It stars Rhys Ifans as de Vere and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
English

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