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Stardust
- Director: Matthew Vaughn
- Writer: Jane Goldman; Matthew Vaughn
- Producer: Lorenzo di Bonaventura; Michael Dreyer
CGiii Comment
Huge production values, mesmerising SFX and, mostly, memorable for Robert de Niro's gay astral pirate.
A beautifully realised fantasy.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a maiden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a cross-dressing pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love?
Cast & Characters
Claire Danes as Yvaine;
Ian McKellen as Narrator;
Bimbo Hart as Young Scientist;
Alastair MacIntosh as Victorian Academic;
David Kelly as Guard;
Ben Barnes as Young Dunstan;
Kate Magowan as Slave Girl / Una;
Melanie Hill as Ditchwater Sal;
Charlie Cox as Tristan Thorn;
Michelle Pfeiffer as Lamia;
Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare;
Sienna Miller as Victoria;
Henry Cavill as Humphrey;
Nathaniel Parker as Dunstan Thorn;
Darby Hawker as Grumpy Customer