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Beowulf & Grendel
Driving by his deep will of avenging the death of his father, who has been murdered by the Danish king, Hrothgar, who has murdered his father to protect his people from his danger, Grendel, the courageous son of the troll, the thing that leads Hrothgar to hire the courageous Beowulf to kill Grendel.
















13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

June1982, Kent, England, UK

9 June 1968, Stepney, London, England, UK


23 April 1961


23 February 1964, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK





22 November 1963, Reykjavik, Iceland

30 January 1951, UK

24 February 1926

9 February 1953

15 December 1973

26 July 1972, St. Asaph, Wales, UK


10 July 1958

8 January 1979, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

24 August 1964, Iceland

24 April 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK



13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

13 March 1973, Connecticut, USA


13 November 1969, Paisley, Scotland, UK

5 September 1999

2 July 1969, Reykjavík, Iceland



August 12, 2006
A fascinating trip to the dark ages and a good story well told
August 09, 2006
If you're game for a strange and beautiful-looking new version of the (very) old legend, you can safely give this one a rental.
July 28, 2006
Beowulf's reality-driven approach suffers for lack of scope and questionable poetic license.
October 07, 2006
ridiculous
July 13, 2006
This gristle-intensive R-rated version of Beowulf travels a predictable revisionist route.
October 14, 2006
The thrilling beauty of this reading of Beowulf is that it makes [the characters] feel modern... These people live in the real world, not in a fable and not in a history book.
July 12, 2006
A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.
July 27, 2006
[You can] feel the filmmakers yearning to have Beowulf and Grendel go all Rambo on each other. Instead, they keep pulling back for more Old English angst, as if they're torn between commerce and winning the approval of their high school English teacher.
August 24, 2006
Gunnarsson has made a film that would make the real Beowulf and Grendel, if they ever really existed, quite proud.
July 14, 2006
A semi-mythic period piece, Beowulf & Grendel offers sublime scenery that's breathtaking and bone-chilling.
July 12, 2006
Andrew Rai Berzins' script spruces up long stretches of Old English with unexpected bursts of cussing and gleeful vulgarity that feel as misguided as everything else in the film.
August 12, 2006
Trying to give us the true story behind the epic, the movie only reminds us of why humans write epics in the first place.