Kate and Leopold

Theatrical Release Date: 2001 12 21 (USA)

UPC: 031398150527

Studio: Lionsgate

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Questionable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: Filmmaker James Mangold follows his Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted (1999) with this whimsical fantasy. Meg Ryan stars as Kate McKay, a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius ex-boyfriend Stuart (Liev Schreiber) opens a portal in time, the experiment transports Leopold (Hugh Jackman) from 1867 to the present day. A charming bachelor and the royal "Third Duke of Albany" in his own time, Leopold is fascinated by the 21st century. As the courtly Leopold and the decidedly liberated Kate tour the town, a mutual attraction develops into something deeper, a relationship that's threatened by Leopold's temporary chronological status. Kate & Leopold (2001) was originally developed by co-screenwriter Steve Rogers as a project for star/producer Sandra Bullock, who had a hit with his film Hope Floats (1998). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Song – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Original Song – null Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Feature commentary with co-writer/director James Mangold
"On the Set" featurette
Deleted scenes with optional commentary with co-writer/director James Mangold
Costume featurette

Kate and Leopold

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 04/10/2012

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DHMA null

Runtime: 123 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Karl Williams

A fun, quirky romantic comedy-fantasy that is never entirely convincing in its romance, but finds hilarious purchase in the form of Hugh Jackman, who marvelously inhabits the script's best-written fish-out-of-water scenes. Jackman is superb as a 19th century nobleman encountering such modern abominations as pooper scooper laws and false advertising, but the passion that should be at the story's heart falls woefully flat. Mostly that's because the filmmakers have blown a prime opportunity for richer storytelling by calling upon Meg Ryan to deliver nothing more than another solid, if by now predictable, variation on her "klutzy modern gal pining for real romance" routine. How much better a film might have resulted if Ryan, a capable actress who has done underrated and complex work in such films as Restoration (1995) and Courage Under Fire (1996), had been required to play someone less familiar? What's so fascinating about the fictional concept of time travel is the contrast it provides between contemporary life and that of another era. In Leopold's relationship with the modern world, the film has a lot to say about what we've sacrificed at the altar of profit and career, but in his relationship with Kate, Kate and Leopold (2001) becomes about nothing more than packaging and marketing a product, sadly proving its own point. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Arthur Nascarella  Actor 
Matthew Beisner  Actor 
Nai Yuan Hu  Actor 
Stephanie Sanditz  Actor 
Stan Tracy  Actor 
John Rothman  Actor 
Matthew Sussman  Actor 
David Aaron Baker  Actor 
Russell Di Perna  Actor 
Brandon Parrish  Actor 
Brittney Startzman  Actor 
Bill Corsair  Actor 
Charlotte Ayanna  Actor 
Cornelius Byrne  Actor 
Brian Letscher  Actor 
Kristen Schaal  Actor 
Robert Manning  Actor 
Martha Madison  Actor 
Ebony Jo-Ann  Actor 
Kevin Daniels  Actor 
Stephanie Montalvo  Actor 
Michael Shelle  Actor 
Frank Arcuri  Actor 
Viola Davis  Actor 
Joe Mosso  Actor 
Josh Stamberg  Actor 
Andrea Barnes  Actor 
George Hahn  Actor 
Dennis Rees  Actor 
Jonathan Fried  Actor 
Henry Boyle  Actor 
Andrew Jack  Actor 
William Sanford  Actor 
Cole Hawkins  Actor 
Roma Torre  Actor 
James Mangold  Actor 
Michael Cassady  Actor 
Chazz Menedez  Actor 
Ray Seiden  Actor 
Francis Dumaurier  Actor 
James Mangold  Director 
James Mangold  Screenwriter 
Kerry Orent  Executive Producer 
Bob Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Harvey Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Rolfe Kent  Composer (Music Score) 
Cathy Konrad  Producer 
Meryl Poster  Executive Producer 
Steven Rogers  Screenwriter 
Meg Ryan  Actor 
Hugh Jackman  Actor 
Liev Schreiber  Actor 
Breckin Meyer  Actor 
Natasha Lyonne  Actor 
Bradley Whitford  Actor 
Paxton Whitehead  Actor 
Spalding Gray  Actor 
Philip Bosco  Actor 

Country: USA