The Reckoning (2003)

Directed by

Paul McGuigan

Genre

drama film, crime film, mystery film, medieval film

Country

United Kingdom, Spain

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In medieval England, a wandering troupe of actors stages a play about a local murder. Their performance draws dangerous attention as they uncover dark secrets in the town.

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What happens

The Reckoning, also known as Morality Play (and as El misterio de Wells in Spain), is a 2004 murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel. It was written by Mark Mills and based on the 1995 novel Morality Play by Barry Unsworth. Filming was done on location in Spain, Wales, and England. The story, which is set during the medieval period in England, alludes to the evolution of the theatre arts from what was strictly Biblical morality plays in the period to dramas based on real or extra-Biblical fictional subjects. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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