W.E.
2011 film by Madonna / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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W.E. (stylised W./E.) is a 2011 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Madonna and starring Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac, Richard Coyle, and James D'Arcy.[4] The screenplay was co-written by Alek Keshishian, who previously worked with Madonna on her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare and two of her music videos. Although the film was panned by critics and was a box office bomb, it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. This marked Isaac's and Cornish's second role together, the first being Sucker Punch.
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Directed by | Madonna |
Written by | Madonna Alek Keshishian |
Produced by | Madonna Kris Thykier |
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Cinematography | Hagen Bogdanski |
Edited by | Danny B. Tull |
Music by | Abel Korzeniowski |
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Distributed by | StudioCanal (United Kingdom) The Weinstein Company[2][3] (United States) |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
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Budget | £11 million ($17.62 million) |
Box office | $2 million[2] |
The film tells the story of two women separated by over six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop is obsessed with Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne so he could marry American Wallis Simpson. But Wally's research, including several visits to Sotheby's auction of the Windsor estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought. Traveling back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally's journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis and Edward from the early days of their romance to the unraveling of their lives over the following decades.