Upload
Thumbnail

About this movie

Genres:
Drama
Language:
English
Running time:
1:49:58
Partner rating:
PG-13
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Keira Knightley [Georgiana
  2. The Duchess of Devonshire]
  3. Ralph Fiennes [Duke of Devonshire]
  4. Hayley Atwell [Lady Bess Foster]
  5. Dominic Cooper [Earl Grey]
  6. Charlotte Rampling [Lady Spencer]
  7. Keira Knightley Georgiana Spencer
  8. Ralph Fiennes Duke of Devonshire
  9. Charlotte Rampling Lady Spencer
  10. Dominic Cooper Earl Grey
  11. Hayley Atwell Lady Bess Foster
  12. Simon McBurney Charles Fox
  13. Aidan McArdle Richard Sheridan
  14. John Shrapnel Gen. Grey
  15. Alistair Petrie Heaton

Directors

  1. Saul Dibb

Producers

  1. Michael Kuhn
  2. Gabrielle Tana
  3. Carolyn Marks-Blackwood [Executive Producer]

Writers

  1. Amanda Foreman [Book Author of "Georgiana. Duchess of Devonshire"]
  2. Jeffrey Hatcher [Screenwriter]
  3. Anders Thomas Jensen [Screenplay]
  4. Saul Dibb [Screenplay]

Also watch your movie on...

  • In addition to YouTube you can also watch your movie on Android phones and tablets using the Google Play Movies app.
    Learn more

The Duchess

Thumbnail Play video in overlay2:27

Trailer for The Duchess

Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of Georgiana Cavendish (Keira Knightley), a beautiful and clever woman who becomes a celebrity of British high society when she marries the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) and becomes consort to one of the most powerful men in England. Beloved for her trend-setting ... Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of Georgiana Cavendish (Keira Knightley), a beautiful and clever woman who becomes a celebrity of British high society when she marries the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) and becomes consort to one of the most powerful men in England. Beloved for her trend-setting fashion designs as well as her political activism, Georgiana's fire and wit make her a beloved figure everywhere but her own home, where her cold and distant husband's control over her is stifling, soon sending her into the arms of a another man -- an act that soon forces her to learn about the brutal difference in the rights afforded to 18th century men and women.

Trailer for The Duchess

Loading...
Working...

Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

61%Tomatometer score: 61% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies This is a wonderful film. – Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Ben Lyons, At the Movies There's something really special about Kiera Knightly in these period pieces. – Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Claudia Puig, USA Today It chronicles the saga of a vibrant and forward-thinking woman hampered by the constraints of a rigid society. – Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune It's disturbingly shallow, focused so tightly on one woman's feelings of repression and loneliness that it lacks any perspective on their causes. – Full review External link
  5. Positive review
    Evan Williams, The Australian Intelligently written, superbly acted, beautiful to look at and happily free of anachronisms. – Full review External link
  6. Positive review
    Sandra Hall, Sydney Morning Herald Knightley, whose glamorous reputation has outstripped her acting talents until now, is subjected to a barrage of close-ups, which could have been disastrous. Yet it isn't. In this one, she really... – Full review External link

Read more reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

You might also like...

  1. Thumbnail

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Partner rating: R
    2:13:31 | 1975

    With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. There he encou...

    Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Louise Fletcher, Scatman Crothers, Michael Berr...

    Positive review 96% $1.99
  2. Thumbnail

    The Edge of Love

    Partner rating: R
    1:50:41 | 2008

    The Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident in which Thomas found his home turned into a war...

    Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys

    Negative review 35% $2.99
  3. Thumbnail

    The Green Mile

    Partner rating: R
    3:08:35 | 1999

    Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of the dark...

    Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, Graham Greene, James Cromwell, Patricia Cla...

    Positive review 80% $1.99
  4. Thumbnail

    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

    Partner rating: PG-13
    2:23:07 | 2003

    Following his surprise-hit American remake of The Ring in 2002, director Gore Verbinski took on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the second of recent films to be based upon Disney theme-park rides (the first being The Country Bears). When Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the daughter of Governor Swann (Jonathan Pryce) is...

    Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Pryce

    Positive review 79% $1.99
  5. Thumbnail

    The Black Pirate

    Partner rating: GREEN
    1:22:50 | 1926

    The Black Pirate was hailed in 1926 as the "return" of the Douglas Fairbanks who'd breezed through several peppy comedies before starring in lavish costume epics like Robin Hood (1922) and Thief of Bagdad (1924). The story involves a young nobleman (Fairbanks) whose father is killed by pirates. He vows to avenge his dad's death by becoming a buc...

    Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Anders Randolf, Donald Crisp, Tempe Pigott, S...

    Positive review 100% Free
  6. Thumbnail

    Ladder 49

    Partner rating: PG-13
    1:54:54 | 2004

    An everyday hero recalls his life as he's forced to look death in the eye in this adventure drama. Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is a young firefighter who is a member of Ladder Company 49, led by Capt. Kennedy (John Travolta), a tough but compassionate man who looks upon his fellow firefighters as a family. While battling a blaze, Morrison fi...

    Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta

    Negative review 40% $1.99

Staff Picks

  1. Thumbnail

    Jack Reacher

    Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in the explosive thriller the...

    Jack Reacher

    Partner rating: PG-13
    2:10:25 | 2012

    Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in the explosive thriller the critics are calling "taut, muscular, gruff and cool"*. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: "Get Jac...

    Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo, Jai...

    Positive review 62% $12.99
  2. Thumbnail

    The Impossible

    Nominated for an Academy Award® (Best Actress, Naomi Watts), THE IMPOSSIBLE is the incredible true story of a family caught one of the worst natural catastro...

    The Impossible

    Partner rating: PG-13
    1:53:43 | 2012

    Nominated for an Academy Award® (Best Actress, Naomi Watts), THE IMPOSSIBLE is the incredible true story of a family caught one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But even in their darkest hours, true life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter. Bot...

    Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland

    Positive review 81% $3.99
  3. Thumbnail

    Gangster Squad

    An elite police squad fights to save the city of Los Angeles from a power-hungry East Coast mobster in this gritty police-detective film set in the 1940s, an...

    Gangster Squad

    Partner rating: R
    1:52:51 | 2013

    An elite police squad fights to save the city of Los Angeles from a power-hungry East Coast mobster in this gritty police-detective film set in the 1940s, and based on Paul Lieberman's seven-part Los Angeles Times series "Tales From the Gangster Squad." Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is a Brooklyn-born boxer-turned-L.A. kingpin whose b...

    Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie,...

    Negative review 32% $3.99
to add this to Watch Later
Loading...
Working...