Bright Star is a drama/romance movie that is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats. Written and directed by Jane Campion, stars: Ben Whishaw as John Keats, Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne, Paul Schneider as Charles Armitage Brown, Keats’ best friend, Kerry Fox as Fanny's mother, Thomas Sangster as Samuel Brawne, Fanny's brother, Jonathan Aris as Leigh Hunt, Samuel Barnett as Joseph Severn. Set to be released on Nonember 6, 2009 (UK) and September 18, 2009 (USA) by Apparition and Pathé Distribution.
London, 1818, a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. But when Keats's younger brother falls ill John and Fanny are drawn together. Keats, touched by Fanny's efforts to help care for his brother, agrees to teach her poetry.
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By the time Fanny's alarmed mother (Kerry Fox) and Keats's best friend Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider) realize their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations: "I have the feeling as if I were dissolving," Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats's own fatal illness proved insurmountable.
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