Don Quixote (2000)

Directed by

Peter Yates

Genre

adventure, comedy, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging gentleman Alonso Quijano decides to become a knight errant and takes a farmer as his squire. They travel across the countryside on horseback and donkey encountering various people and situations.

lightheartedwhimsicalgentlenostalgicearthysincereleisurelycomedic

What happens

Don Quixote is a 2000 television film produced by Hallmark Entertainment and aired on TNT on April 9, 2000. It was directed by Peter Yates, and the teleplay, by John Mortimer, was adapted from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote. The film was shown in three parts in Europe but in one installment in the U.S. The film was produced by Dyson Lovell, with Robert Halmi Sr. and John Lithgow as executive producers and cinematography by David Connell. The original music is by Richard Hartley. The film stars Lithgow as Don Quixote de La Mancha (Quixote's real name is Alonso Quijano), and Bob Hoskins as Sancho Panza, and features Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Lambert Wilson, Amelia Warner, Tony Haygarth, Peter Eyre, Lilo Baur, James Purefoy, and Trevor Peacock. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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