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Release Date: 2001

Cast: Steve O'Donnell, Philip Lenkowsky, Mark Addy, Heath Ledger, Alice Connor, Petr Meissel, Vladimir Kulhavy, Laura Fraser, Karel Dobrý, Daniel Rous, Jonathan Slinger, David Sterne ...MORE

Cast: Steve O'Donnell, Philip Lenkowsky, Mark Addy, Heath Ledger, Alice Connor, Petr Meissel, Vladimir Kulhavy, Laura Fraser, Karel Dobrý, Daniel Rous, Jonathan Slinger, David Sterne, Rufus Sewell, David Fisher, Alice Veselá, Howie Lotker, David Schneider, Christopher Cazenove, Bérénice Bejo, Berwick Kaler, Olivia Williams, Shannyn Sossamon, Mathew Mills, Alan Tudyk, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Scott Handy, Rudolf Kubik, Leagh Conwell, Nick Brimble, Paul Bettany, James Purefoy ...LESS

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A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American action-adventure film written, directed, and produced by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince. The film follows the story of William Thatcher, a peasant masquerading as a knight, along with his companions in the world of medieval jousting. William poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince... MORE

A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American action-adventure film written, directed, and produced by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/Edward, the Black Prince. The film follows the story of William Thatcher, a peasant masquerading as a knight, along with his companions in the world of medieval jousting. William poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as Edward, the Black Prince of Wales and Geoffrey Chaucer. The film takes its title from Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" in his Canterbury Tales. The film was a box office success, garnering $117,487,473 with a budget of just over $41 million. Set in late Medieval Europe in the late 1350s, the story begins with the protagonists and squires, William (Heath Ledger), Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat (Alan Tudyk), discovering their master, Sir Ector (Nick Brimble), dead of bowel problems in the middle of a jousting tournament. He was ahead "three lances to none" and merely had to finish the final round to win the tournament and be LESS