BBC Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew (2005)

Starring Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Twiggy Lawson and David Mitchell Directed by David Richards In this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy, Katherine Minola (Shirley Henderson, Happy Valley, Bridget Jones’s Diary) is a temperamental yet successful politician, and everyone, from her party chairman to her sister, wants her to get married. Is passionate, eccentric Petruchio (Rufus Sewell, The Man in the High Castle, Zen) the answer to her prayers? “Deliciously far- Fetched…” – Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times