Release Date
December 19, 2014 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
May 5, 2015 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Mike Leigh
Cast
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Sandy Foster, Karl Johnson, Ruth Sheen, Amy Dawson, Lesley Manville, Martin Savage, Richard Bremmer
Studio
Running Time
150 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for some sexual content
What is Mr. Turner about?
"Mr. Turner" explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
You’ll hate it, they said, “they” being the other critics who know my disdain for long movies where not a lot happens. And for movies about artists. They were wrong. Mr. Turner, about mid-1800’s painter J.M.W. Turner, is a surprisingly engrossing drama… despite being long and not much happening.
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