MOVIE · 2001

A Knight's Tale

ActionAdventureDramaRomance133 min

After his master dies in the middle of a tournament, peasant squire William Thatcher seizes the chance to pass himself off as a knight and enter the jousting circuit of 14th-century Europe. Heath Ledger is William, chasing prize money, status, and a place in a world built to keep men like him out. Alongside him, Paul Bettany’s Geoffrey Chaucer becomes his sharp-tongued herald, while Rufus Sewell brings patrician rivalry to Count Adhemar, the opponent William can’t avoid. Brian Helgeland’s medieval story leans into armor, spectacle, and courtly romance, with a deliberate anachronistic streak that gives the tournaments a looser, more modern rhythm.