A Knight's Tale (2001)
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A Knight's Tale rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7/10· 218K votes
Rotten Tomatoes59%
Metacritic56%
TMDb6.874/10· 3K votesWith 59% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7/10 on IMDb and 56/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About A Knight's Tale
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Cast of A Knight's Tale
Heath Ledger
as William Thatcher
Rufus Sewell
as Count Adhemar
Shannyn Sossamon
as Jocelyn
Paul Bettany
as Geoffrey Chaucer
Laura Fraser
as Kate
Mark Addy
as Roland
Alan Tudyk
as Wat
Bérénice Bejo
as Christiana
Scott Handy
as Germaine
James Purefoy
as Colville
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Leagh Conwell
as Young William Thatcher
Christopher Cazenove
as John Thatcher
A Knight's Tale facts
- Budget
- $65M
- Box office
- $117.5M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Medieval adventure combines jousting action with duel and romantic drama
- •Impostor protagonist drives engaging character arc through self-discovery
- •Anachronistic approach blends period setting with contemporary storytelling tone
What the audience disliked
- •Critical scores mixed suggest genre balance and tonal consistency challenges
- •Comedy-drama-romance hybrid may not fully satisfy any single audience segment
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