The Tempest

Helen Mirren stars as the deeply wronged Milanese Duchess Prospera in this gender-switching version of Shakespeare's play that finds the banished royal seizing an opportunity for vengeance when her traitorous brother (Chris Cooper), who usurped her throne with false charges of witchcraft, is shipwrecked with his retinue on her volcanic island. Djimon Hounsou costars as Caliban in this lavish, visually stunning adaptation that received an Oscar(R) nomination for its inventive costume design.