In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren). Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda (Felicity Jones). This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.
- DIRECTOR/WRITER : Julie Taymor
- CAST : Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Felicity Jones, Russell Brand, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn, Tom Conti, Alan Cumming, Chris Cooper, Ben Whishaw & Alfred Molina
- BASED ON : The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- LOCATIONS : Hawaii & New York
- DISTRIBUTOR : Miramax
- PRODUCERS : Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Jason K. Lau, Julia Taylor-Stanley & Julie Taymor
- DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Stuart Dryburgh
- MUSIC : Mark Friedberg
- COSTUMES : Sandy Powell
- AWARDS : Academy Award Nominee
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