A Knight's Tale poster

2001·133 min·Released

A Knight's Tale

“He will rock you.”

Adventure
Drama
Romance
Action

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

6.9(3,416 votes)

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25th Anniversary 4K Restoration | Official Trailer

Cast & Crew

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

William Thatcher

Rufus Sewell

Rufus Sewell

Count Adhemar

Shannyn Sossamon

Shannyn Sossamon

Jocelyn

Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany

Geoffrey Chaucer

Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser

Kate

Mark Addy

Mark Addy

Roland

Alan Tudyk

Alan Tudyk

Wat

Bérénice Bejo

Bérénice Bejo

Christiana

Scott Handy

Scott Handy

Germaine

James Purefoy

James Purefoy

Colville

Leagh Conwell

Leagh Conwell

Young William Thatcher

Christopher Cazenove

Christopher Cazenove

John Thatcher

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Kamurai

Written on 7/27/2020

Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend. What a fantastic cast: I honestly don't know if you could have cast it better. Just thinking about Alan Tudyk, Heath Ledger, and Shannyn Sossamon makes me smile. Everyone plays their roles fantasticly, taking their stock characters, and spinning the writing to the 9th degree: the jerks are hate-able jerks and I can't help but love the leads and supporting characters. Part of what makes this movie disctinct is that they forces some modern (for the time) music into it when it very did not belong with medieval England / Europe. There are several scenes where if you squint, you could mistake the movie for "10 Things I Hate About You" or some other teen rom com of that time period. Fortunately they found a way to balance the jousting content with personality stories, which are by far more entertaining, but unless you're Kevin Smith, you can't exactly cut jousting out of a movie set in competitions for jousting. This is a fun movie with some positive messaging in it about women and class rights, please give this a go.

GenerationofSwine

Written on 1/12/2023

My dad, rest his soul, really liked this and at the time it came out I was a pretentious college student that had forsaken all things fun and couldn't understand what my father could possibly like about it. And now I'm living in a world where someone makes a tweet with the president's head morphed onto Rocky Balboa's body and people are freaking out and screaming "How am I supposed to take it, if not totally literally!" And I'm sitting off to the side, mumbling that it was just a joke, and seeing my old self that hated A Knight's Tale reflected in those people and thinking "I was a real humorless prig for about four solid years, thank every god that has ever been worshiped that I grew out of that." When I first saw it I thought the part where the smith added the Nike swoosh to the armor was horrible because, well, I was pretentious and took life far too seriously.... blatant product placement!... sweatshops!...child labor!.... Corporatism! Whatever! And now that said phase in my life has melted away, it's just a joke and honestly kind of a cute one. And then the same can be said about Chaucer.... and literary genius, how dare they slander such a.... and now that I'm older he was absolutely the best part of the movie wasn't he? Classic rock music in movie about the dark ages and... pandering... unrealistic... blah, blah, blah, and now that that ill informed phase in life wore off, it works on multiple levels and most surprisingly they succeed in using it to make you laugh. I guess the point is that now that I learned to actually enjoy things and not take everything so seriously, so literally, and understand a joke is just a joke, it's a super fun and hysterical comedic romp and to watch it is to love it.

Media

25th Anniversary 4K Restoration | Official Trailer

25th Anniversary 4K Restoration | Official Trailer

A Knight's Tale (2001) [5.1] [4K] [FTD-1294]

A Knight's Tale (2001) [5.1] [4K] [FTD-1294]

William's Act Of Love

William's Act Of Love

"How Can I Prove My Love To You?"

"How Can I Prove My Love To You?"

Dance Scene

Dance Scene

Dance Training

Dance Training