Alexander (2004) on Netflix
R20042h 55mActionAdventureBiography
Alexander is raised in Macedonia by his mother Olympias and the tutor Aristotle, drawn to poetry, music and combat. His father Philip marries Eurydice, and Alexander is banished from the palace.
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Plot summary
Ptolemy, pharaoh of Egypt, sets down his memoirs of Alexander around 285 BC. The boy is raised by his mother Olympias and the tutor Aristotle, drawn to love and honor, to music, poetry and combat, and to exploration. He is close to his childhood friends, among them Hephaestion, who likens him to Achilles; Alexander gives Hephaestion the part of Patroclus. Philip, his father, weds Eurydice, the niece of Attalus, and Alexander disowns Attalus as a kinsman and insults Philip, who banishes him from the palace. Alexander becomes King of Macedonia and leads his army against the Persian Empire, marching across Asia for eight years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Alexander (2004)
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- A group of 25 Greek lawyers threatened to sue Oliver Stone and Warner Bros. over what they called an inaccurate portrayal of history, demanding the production make clear the film was pure fiction, but after an advance screening they dropped the case.
- At the film's British premiere, director Oliver Stone blamed "raging fundamentalism in morality" for its poor American box office performance, arguing that critics and audiences had overreacted to the film's treatment of Alexander's sexuality.
- Alexander was nominated in six categories at the 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor for Colin Farrell, Worst Actress for Angelina Jolie and Worst Director for Oliver Stone, making it the second-most-nominated Razzie film of 2004, though it won none.
- Alexander was a box-office bomb: built on a production budget of $155 million and heavy marketing costs on top of that, it left projected losses of as much as $71 million.
- The two earlier DVD versions of Alexander, the director's cut and the theatrical version, sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States, and Oliver Stone's third version, Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut, sold nearly a million more, becoming one of Warner Bros.' highest-selling catalogue items.
