Taking place during playwright William Shakespeare’s “lost years” where Shakespeare left no historical traces of his life between the birth of his twin children in 1585 and 1592, the movie explores how a lowly lute player known as Bill leaves Stratford-Upon-Avon to follow his dreams in London and becomes the illustrious William Shakespeare.
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
24 May 1961, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
1980, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
14 May 1979, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
27 October 1969, Rush Green, Romford, Essex, England, UK
27 August 1978, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
October 7, 1971 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
3 November 1987, England, UK
18 November 1980, Essex, England, UK
September 20, 2015
Bill is daft fun for all the family, plus there is the bonus of Damian Lewis as Sir Richard Hawkins.
December 15, 2015
A rare family film -- one that's hilarious.
November 06, 2015
You will chuckle a lot.
October 31, 2016
A Horrible Histories film by any other name, Bill sees the cast of the popular CBBC show unite for a daft, affectionate take on the rise-to-fame years of William Shakespeare.
September 20, 2015
It's knockabout stuff, a long way from the elegant wit of Tom Stoppard's Shakespeare in Love but performed with infectious gusto by the multiple-role-playing cast.
September 18, 2015
Richard Bracewell's Elizabethan-era comedy, starring the cast of Horrible Histories and Yonderland, is brisk, cheery fare that yields as many laughs as it does groans.
September 17, 2015
If you're up for a spot of lyre rock and other hey-nonny-nonsense, this is exactly as you like it.
September 18, 2015
Don't let the two-star rating throw you completely, for there are some nice gags in Bill.
September 20, 2015
Nicely balancing its historically literate gags with broad knockabout slapstick, Bill is a crowd-pleasing treat that should tickle audiences young and old alike.
September 17, 2015
The original members of TV's Horrible Histories make a promising feature debut with this ribald period romp.
December 30, 2015
The cast's energy is infectious and they frequently seem to be one smirk or snigger shy of corpsing en masse and ruining the take.
September 20, 2015
An amiable diversion ...
