Kate & Leopold

2001
PG-13
1h 58m

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Feel-Good Romance Comedy Fantasy Romance

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

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Trivia
Hugh Jackman took etiquette lessons from 19th-century etiquette expert Jane Gibson (who trained actors for such projects as Sense and Sensibility (1995)). He also studied ballroom dancing and trained to ride a horse for the film.

Goofs
Among the people he admires, Leopold mentions "Edison with his lamp", Diesel, Bell, and Westinghouse. In 1876, when the movie takes place, Thomas A. Edison had just gotten his first interest in incandescent lamps, Rudolph Diesel was 18, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone had just been patented. Although the Westinghouse Electric Company wasn't founded until 1886, George Westinghouse received his first patent in 1873.

Quotes
Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.
Gretchen: I believe you.

Crazy credits
In 1852, Elisha Graves Otis invented the safety brake for a lifting platform. One year later in 1853, he founded the Otis Elevator Company in Yonkers, New York. The Otis Elevator Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation.

Alternate versions
The following scenes were cut from the film just a few days before the release:
References suggesting that Kate has a genetic relationship to Stuart
a scene where Ryan appears in the background of a 19th-century party
a cameo by director James Mangold where he plays a director whose film is being changed to meet the demands of a test screening

Connections
Featured in Sting: Until (2001)

Soundtracks
Manhattan Beach
Performed by University of Michigan Band
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Courtesy of Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company

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Enjoy this movie!

For those whose comments show a serious lack of humour, get a life! Why find picky details to criticise when this movie is here to enjoy! Those not hung up with identifying finer points of historical inaccuracy, go ahead and enjoy the movie. It is a comedy, not a PhD thesis. A good 2 hours of fun (but I must admit Meg Ryan's hair is a bit scruffy)