Cinema: Bosom Buddies ; Stage Beauty (15, 110mins) Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin, Rupert Everett, Zoe Tapper, Hugh Bonneville, Edward Fox, Richard Griffiths, Tom Hollander, Fenella Woolgar. Rating: 8. 5/10

Daily Post › September 04, 2004

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Summary

THE streets of 17th century London are brought vividly to life in Stage Beauty, a bawdy costume romp with heaving bosoms and cross- dressing aplenty, and strong echoes of Shakespeare In Love.

In 1660s London, Charles II (Everett) ascends to the throne and theatre re-emerges as the entertainment of the masses.

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Cinema: Bosom Buddies ; Stage Beauty (15, 110mins) Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin, Rupert Everett, Zoe Tapper, Hugh Bonneville, Edward Fox, Richard Griffiths, Tom Hollander, Fenella Woolgar. Rating: 8. 5/10

Ned Kynaston (Crudup) holds audiences in thrall with his por...

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