Othello Movie Review 2001

Updated version (with modern dialogue) of Shakespeare's "Othello" set in contemporary London. John Othello (Walker) is a respected police officer who has just been installed as the first black commissioner of the Metropolitan force. His promotion comes at the expense of his mentor/friend Ben Jago (Eccleston) who does not handle the slight well as he is now second-in-command. So Ben plays the race card and works on John's jealousy of his heiress white wife, Dessie (Hawley), by suggesting that she is unfaithful. Walker is convincingly impassioned but Eccleston's slimy manipulation is rather too obvious.

Distribution

Acorn Media Publishing, 801 Roeder Rd., Ste 700, Silver Spring, MD 20910, Toll-free: 800-999-0212, Fax: (301)608-9312, Email: info@acornmedia.com, URL: http://www.acornmedia.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 96 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

London, Modern Shakespeare, Jealousy, African America, Cops, Plays to Film: William Shakespeare, Marriage

Screenplay

Andrew Davies

Cast

Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston, Keeley Hawes, Richard Coyle, Del Synnott, Christopher Fox, Allan Cutts, Patrick Myers

Cinematography

Daf Hobson

Director

Geoffrey Sax

Music

Debbie Wiseman