A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 fantasy romantic comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Michael Hoffman, based on the 1600 play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The ensemble cast features Kevin Kline as Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett as Titania and Oberon, Stanley Tucci as Puck, and Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, and Dominic West as the four lovers. Plot In 1890s Monte Athena, in the Kingdom of Italy, as Thesius and Hippolyta's wedding banquet preparations are under way, young Hermia's father Egeus approaches him. He requests the duke support his promise of his daughter's hand to Demetrius, at threat of her death if she does not comply. Thesius gives the young woman four days to choose to marry him, join a convent or die. As the lovers Lysander and Hermia are forbidden to marry, the pair make plans to flee to the forest to escape the arrangement. They confide in Helena, as she is in anguish over Demetrius because she's desperately in love with him after they'd had an affair. Meanwhile, theatre director Peter Quince assigns parts to his upcoming production based on the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe. After the townspeople make a mockery of actor Nick Bottoms, the acting troupe decide to take rehearsals to the forest.