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Casanova

Release Date: 
12/25/2005
MPAA Rating: 
MPAA: R
Star Rating: 
★★★
Heath Ledger is no dummy. After taking on the career risking role of a gay cowpoke in Brokeback Mountain, he smartly switches gears, not to mention sexual preferences, to play Casanova, the world’s foremost lover of…women. The good news for your wife or girlfriend is he turns on the charm and burns up the screen with sheer romantic heat. Of course portraying the most notorious Italian fuckmeister of the 18th century, and perhaps all time, should be easy—especially when it involves bedding hotties like Sienna Miller, whose erogenous zones manage to transcend the lumbering corsets she squeezes into. Although based on legend, just think of it as a tolerable Shakespeare In Love meets The Fugitive, with Casanova dodging and weaving through every canal in town to escape those who think his scandalous behavior is more than a little outrageous. Since it’s all in the name of nookie, we’re siding with Casanova.