Gods and Monsters

    Genre
    Biography, Drama
  • |
    • Runtime
    105 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    1998
  • |
    • Countries
    USA, UK
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Hungarian
  • |
DIRECTED BY:
Bill Condon
CAST INCLUDES:
Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Oscar winner Bill Condon (DREAMGIRLS, KINSEY) delivers a spellbinding work with GODS AND MONSTERS, rated 96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. This semi-fiction Academy Award and Film Independent Spirit Award winning film is "An engrossing, unusual, imaginatively executed bit of psychological gamesmanship" (Variety). The film centers on Director James Whale, expertly played by Oscar winner Ian McKellen, who begins a relationship with his gardener (Brendan Fraser).

SYNOPSIS

Once a powerful Hollywood director best known for “Frankenstein” and “The Bride of Frankenstein,” James Whale (Ian McKellen) is long since retired and in increasingly poor health. His stalwart housekeeper, Hanna (Lynn Redgrave), quietly disapproves of Whale’s faceless, nameless parade of young gay lovers, but when the director takes an interest in new gardener Clayton Boone, a former Marine and Korean War veteran, it seems to be for something more than his usual casual conquest.

Gods and Monsters

    Genre
    Biography, Drama
  • |
    • Runtime
    105 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    1998
  • |
    • Countries
    USA, UK
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Hungarian
  • |
DIRECTED BY
Bill Condon
CAST INCLUDES
Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich
Oscar winner Bill Condon (DREAMGIRLS, KINSEY) delivers a spellbinding work with GODS AND MONSTERS, rated 96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. This semi-fiction Academy Award and Film Independent Spirit Award winning film is "An engrossing, unusual, imaginatively executed bit of psychological gamesmanship" (Variety). The film centers on Director James Whale, expertly played by Oscar winner Ian McKellen, who begins a relationship with his gardener (Brendan Fraser).

Once a powerful Hollywood director best known for “Frankenstein” and “The Bride of Frankenstein,” James Whale (Ian McKellen) is long since retired and in increasingly poor health. His stalwart housekeeper, Hanna (Lynn Redgrave), quietly disapproves of Whale’s faceless, nameless parade of young gay lovers, but when the director takes an interest in new gardener Clayton Boone, a former Marine and Korean War veteran, it seems to be for something more than his usual casual conquest.

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