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A Knight's Tale

"He Will Rock You"

2001-05-11 Adventure 2hr 12m

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.

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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.

  • Released
    2001-05-11
  • Revenue
    $117,487,473
  • Budget
    $65,000,000
  • Runtime
    2hr 12m
  • Genre
    Adventure, Drama, Romance, Action
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    7
  • Production
    Columbia Pictures, Escape Artists, Finestkind, Black and Blu Entertainment

Crew

Brian Helgeland
Director
Brian Helgeland
Writer
Todd Black
Producer
Keywords:
london, england poetry rivalry sword fight knight tournament duel torture writer impostor church game jousting medieval aftercreditsstinger

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Cast

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger
William Thatcher
Rufus Sewell

Rufus Sewell
Count Adhemar
Shannyn Sossamon

Shannyn Sossamon
Jocelyn
Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany
Geoffrey Chaucer
Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser
Kate
Mark Addy

Mark Addy
Roland
Alan Tudyk

Alan Tudyk
Wat
Bérénice Bejo

Bérénice Bejo
Christiana
Scott Handy

Scott Handy
Germaine
James Purefoy

James Purefoy
Colville
Leagh Conwell

Leagh Conwell
Young William Thatcher
Christopher Cazenove

Christopher Cazenove
John Thatcher
Steven O'Donnell

Steven O'Donnell
Simon the Summoner
Jonathan Slinger

Jonathan Slinger
Peter the Pardoner
Nick Brimble

Nick Brimble
Sir Ector
Karel Dobrý

Karel Dobrý
Flanders King of Arms
Philip Lenkowsky

Philip Lenkowsky
Rouen King of Arms
Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Old Bishop
Petr Meissel

Petr Meissel
Sword Official
Matthew Mills

Matthew Mills
Colville's Herald
Daniel Rous

Daniel Rous
Local Earl Lagny
Vladimír Kulhavý

Vladimír Kulhavý
Fence
Miroslav Mokos

Miroslav Mokos
French Squire
Noel Le Bon

Noel Le Bon
French Squire
Scott Bellefeville

Scott Bellefeville
French Squire
David Schneider

David Schneider
Relic Seller
Rudolf Kubík

Rudolf Kubík
Paris Master of Arms
David Fisher

David Fisher
London King of Arms
David Sterne

David Sterne
Retired Knight
Alice Connor

Alice Connor
Lone Girl
Alice Bendová

Alice Bendová
Spy
Howie Lotker

Howie Lotker
Lagny Master at Arms
Jan Kuželka

Jan Kuželka
Smithee
Václav Krejčí

Václav Krejčí
Smithee
Jan Nemejovský

Jan Nemejovský
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Jakob Schwarz

Jakob Schwarz
Blackbird Knight (uncredited)

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A Review by Kamurai 8

Written by Kamurai on 2020-07-27

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 thi... read more

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.

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A Review by GenerationofSwine 10

Written by GenerationofSwine on 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 an... read more

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.

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A Review by Kamurai

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 r...

reviewer avatar

A Review by Kamurai 8

Written by Kamurai on 2020-07-27

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 m...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by GenerationofSwine 10

Written by GenerationofSwine on 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 abo...

read more