Topsy-Turvy
Release Date: 1999 - Wide Release
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Film Genre: Period Film, Biopic (Biography), Musical Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Mike Leigh's grandly entertaining "Topsy-Turvy" is one of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as ''Shakespeare in Love'' did last year. Instead of a love-struck young playwright, it presents the curiously matched personalities of the librettist William Schwenk Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan in the midst of a robust, knowing, frequently hilarious look at the musical theater over which they held sway. — Janet Maslin, The New York Times