TITUS (1999)

 





















Directed by: Julie Taymor
Based on the play "Titus Andronicus" by: William Shakespeare
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, James Frain, Laura Fraser, Harry Lennix, Angus Macfadyen, Matthew Rhys, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Osheen Jones, Kenny Doughty, Colin Wells, Blake Ritson, Raz Degan, Bah Souleymane, Geraldine McEwan

162 minutes
(R - adult language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, gore, nudity)

PLOT:
War begets revenge. Victorious General Titus Andronicus returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered Emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus' daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus' sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There's irony in which two sons survive.