A Man for All Seasons (1988 film)

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A Man for All Seasons
Genre	Period piece
Running time	120 minutes
Written by	Robert Bolt
Directed by	Charlton Heston
Starring	Charlton Heston John Gielgud Vanessa Redgrave
Country of origin	United States
Language	English
Release date(s)	December 1988
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A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 television movie about Sir Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. It is a remake of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons and is based on the play by Robert Bolt of the same name. A Man for All Seasons was the first made-for-TV film produced on behalf of the TNT television network.

The film stars Heston as More, Vanessa Redgrave (who cameoed in the 1966 version) as his wife Alice, Sir John Gielgud as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Martin Chamberlain as King Henry VIII, Richard Johnson as the Duke of Norfolk, and Roy Kinnear as the narrator, "The Common Man", who was cut from the previous film. (The "Common Man' functions in the manner of a Greek chorus throughout the play, appearing at crucial moments and seeming to comment on the action.)

The 1988 film follows the original stage play more literally, runs a half-hour longer than the 1966 film, and could be considered more "stagy" than that earlier film, which not only divided the Common Man into several more realistic characters, but omitted small portions of the play itself.