Jefferson Steel (Burt Reynolds) is an ageing Hollywood action hero. He’s vain, insecure and out of work. In a final attempt to find Jefferson work, his incompetent LA agent stumbles upon the perfect role: a prestige run playing King Lear at Stratford-upon-Avon. Jefferson believes he has landed the role of a lifetime; arriving in the UK to discover that instead of a leading role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford-upon-Avon, he is booked to tread the boards with an amateur dramatic society in the sleepy English village Stratford St John, Suffolk. A clash of cultures with comic complications ensues in this funny and ultimately moving comedy.
A charming, warm-hearted British comedy from the makers of Shakespeare in Love. Features a star studded British cast with BAFTA winner Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake, Shakespeare In Love), Sir Derek Jacobi (Gosford Park), and Samantha Bond (known for her role as 'Miss Moneypenny').
