My Kingdom
- Synopsis
- Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like his favourite daughter (Jo) to take control of his business, but his other two daughters claim their share of the estate. The film parallels King Lear quite closely and there are quotations and paraphrasing from Othello and Julius Caesar. The film’s epigraph credits its source ‘As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods/They kill us for their sport’ .
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2002
- Duration
- 116 mins; 10,468 feet
Credits
- Director
- Don Boyd
- Producer
- Gabriele Bacher; Neal Weisman
- Cinematographer
- Dewald Aukema
- Screenplay
- Don Boyd; Nick Davies
- Music
- Deirdre Gribbin; Simon Fisher-Turner
- Art Direction
- David Endley
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Gangster films
Notes
- General
- In BOOM TOWN (ITV 10 October 2001), the final episode of a six-part series on film production in Liverpool, director Don Boyd talks about his reasons for choosing Liverpool as the setting for MY KINGDOM.
- Reviews
- Courtney Lehmann, ‘The Postnolstalgic Renaissance: The Place’ of Liverpool in Don Boyd’s MY KINGDOM in Burnett, Mark Thornton & Ramona Wray, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp 72-90
Production Company
- Name
Close Grip Films
- Name
Primary Pictures
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Tartan Video
- Web
- http://www.tartanvideo.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7494 1400
- Fax
- 020 7439 1922
- Address
- 3rd Floor, Atlantic House
5 Wardour Street
London W1V 3HE
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "My Kingdom". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36799 (Accessed 11 Oct 2024)