Based on the best-selling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl is a captivating tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana. Two sisters, Anne (Portman) and Mary (Johansson), are driven by their ambitious family to seduce the king of England (Bana) in order to advance their position in court. What starts as an opportunity for the girls to increase the family fortune becomes a deadly rivalry to capture the heart of a king and stay alive.
Politics and dysfunction and sexual jealousy are yoked together and Mary and Anne turn things into a classic blonde versus brunette face-off. This soapy story becomes, outrageously, more important than anything else: Henry’s break with Rome is hardly more than a footnote or afterthought in the hissy-fit world of Tudor shagging. It is ridiculous, but imagined with humour and gusto: a very diverting gallop through the heritage landscape. – The Guardian
Set in 1525.
Starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana.
Note: Heavily fictionalized, but still, lovers of costume dramas may enjoy the “galloping horses, bustling gowns and rampaging royals” (NYT) “The Other Boleyn Girl” has been rated PG-13. Roving hands, rolling heads.