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A Knight's Tale

- He Will Rock You

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

Release Date : 2001-05-11

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia PicturesEscape ArtistsFinestkindBlack and Blu Entertainment

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Knight's Tale

Cast

Character Name : William Thatcher

Original Name : Heath Ledger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Count Adhemar

Original Name : Rufus Sewell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jocelyn

Original Name : Shannyn Sossamon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Geoffrey Chaucer

Original Name : Paul Bettany

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kate

Original Name : Laura Fraser

Gender : Female

Character Name : Roland

Original Name : Mark Addy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wat

Original Name : Alan Tudyk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Christiana

Original Name : Bérénice Bejo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Germaine

Original Name : Scott Handy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colville

Original Name : James Purefoy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young William Thatcher

Original Name : Leagh Conwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : John Thatcher

Original Name : Christopher Cazenove

Gender : Male

Character Name : Simon the Summoner

Original Name : Steven O'Donnell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peter the Pardoner

Original Name : Jonathan Slinger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sir Ector

Original Name : Nick Brimble

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flanders King of Arms

Original Name : Karel Dobrý

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rouen King of Arms

Original Name : Philip Lenkowsky

Gender : Male

Character Name : Old Bishop

Original Name : Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sword Official

Original Name : Petr Meissel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colville's Herald

Original Name : Matthew Mills

Gender : Male

Character Name : Local Earl Lagny

Original Name : Daniel Rous

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fence

Original Name : Vladimír Kulhavý

Gender : Male

Character Name : French Squire

Original Name : Miroslav Mokos

Gender : Male

Character Name : French Squire

Original Name : Noel Le Bon

Gender : Female

Character Name : French Squire

Original Name : Scott Bellefeville

Gender : Male

Character Name : Relic Seller

Original Name : David Schneider

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paris Master of Arms

Original Name : Rudolf Kubík

Gender : Male

Character Name : London King of Arms

Original Name : David Fisher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Retired Knight

Original Name : David Sterne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lone Girl

Original Name : Alice Connor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Spy

Original Name : Alice Bendová

Gender : Female

Character Name : Man in Stocks

Original Name : Berwick Kaler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lagny Master at Arms

Original Name : Howie Lotker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Smithee

Original Name : Jan Kuželka

Gender : Male

Character Name : Smithee

Original Name : Václav Krejčí

Gender : Male

Character Name : Smithee

Original Name : Jan Nemejovský

Gender : Male

Character Name : Blackbird Knight (uncredited)

Original Name : Jakob Schwarz

Gender : Male

Reviews

Kamurai

@Kamurai

2021-06-23

Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend. What a fantastic cast: I honestly don't know if you could have cast it better. Just thinking about Alan Tudyk, Heath Ledger, and Shannyn Sossamon makes me smile. Everyone plays their roles fantasticly, taking their stock characters, and spinning the writing to the 9th degree: the jerks are hate-able jerks and I can't help but love the leads and supporting characters. Part of what makes this movie disctinct is that they forces some modern (for the time) music into it when it very did not belong with medieval England / Europe. There are several scenes where if you squint, you could mistake the movie for "10 Things I Hate About You" or some other teen rom com of that time period. Fortunately they found a way to balance the jousting content with personality stories, which are by far more entertaining, but unless you're Kevin Smith, you can't exactly cut jousting out of a movie set in competitions for jousting. This is a fun movie with some positive messaging in it about women and class rights, please give this a go.

GenerationofSwine

@GenerationofSwine

2023-01-12

My dad, rest his soul, really liked this and at the time it came out I was a pretentious college student that had forsaken all things fun and couldn't understand what my father could possibly like about it. And now I'm living in a world where someone makes a tweet with the president's head morphed onto Rocky Balboa's body and people are freaking out and screaming "How am I supposed to take it, if not totally literally!" And I'm sitting off to the side, mumbling that it was just a joke, and seeing my old self that hated A Knight's Tale reflected in those people and thinking "I was a real humorless prig for about four solid years, thank every god that has ever been worshiped that I grew out of that." When I first saw it I thought the part where the smith added the Nike swoosh to the armor was horrible because, well, I was pretentious and took life far too seriously.... blatant product placement!... sweatshops!...child labor!.... Corporatism! Whatever! And now that said phase in my life has melted away, it's just a joke and honestly kind of a cute one. And then the same can be said about Chaucer.... and literary genius, how dare they slander such a.... and now that I'm older he was absolutely the best part of the movie wasn't he? Classic rock music in movie about the dark ages and... pandering... unrealistic... blah, blah, blah, and now that that ill informed phase in life wore off, it works on multiple levels and most surprisingly they succeed in using it to make you laugh. I guess the point is that now that I learned to actually enjoy things and not take everything so seriously, so literally, and understand a joke is just a joke, it's a super fun and hysterical comedic romp and to watch it is to love it.