Mr. Turner
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Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$22 179 785
Director
Actors
Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, Martin Savage, Ruth Sheen, David Horovitch, Karl Johnson, Peter Wight
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Georgina Lowe, Tessa Ross, Gail Egan, Norman Merry
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Suzie Davies, Marco Anton Restivo
Audition
Editing
Short description
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the request of director and screenwriter Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall, who played William Turner (1775-1851), spent two years learning to paint before filming began.
- A working model of the Planet locomotive, built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company, was provided by the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. The locomotive was run on an old railway line in North Wales, laid from east to west. The filmmakers needed to capture the setting sun in the rear of the train – as Turner himself had painted it – and they had only one chance, as the locomotive was provided to them for just one day.
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