Mr. Turner (2014) on Netflix
R20142h 30mBiographyDramaHistory
J.M.W. Turner paints and travels, celebrated and reviled by the public and royalty. His housekeeper, Hannah Danby, keeps his house; at the seaside, the landlady Sophia Booth grows close to him.
- Netflix2.9/5
- IMDb6.8/1028,860 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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For the last twenty-five years of his life, J.M.W. Turner paints and travels, a popular if unruly member of the Royal Academy of Arts. His father, William Turner Snr, a barber, shares his home. His housekeeper of long standing, Hannah Danby, keeps his house and loves him, and he takes her for granted and sometimes uses her sexually. He stays with members of the country aristocracy and visits a brothel. At the seaside he meets the twice-widowed landlady Sophia Booth, who grows close to him. His first lover, Sarah Danby, Hannah's aunt by marriage, has borne him two daughters, whose paternity he denies.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Turner (2014)
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- The film was leaked by the hacker group "Guardians of Peace" onto file-sharing sites on 27 November 2014, more than three weeks before its intended U.S. release, as part of the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, along with Fury, Annie, Still Alice and To Write Love on Her Arms. Within three days an estimated 63,379 unique IPs had downloaded it.
- The film recreates the occasion at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832 when Turner's seascape Helvoetsluys hung next to Constable's The Opening of Waterloo Bridge. Seeing his own muted tones pale beside it, Turner added a smear of red paint representing a buoy, and Constable said, "He's been here and fired a gun."
- Margate was not used to represent Turner's Margate, which was filmed at Kingsand in Cornwall, while Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham stood in for the Royal Academy in London, with the crew meticulously recreating the way paintings of the era were displayed.
