This film explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

GENRE: Biopic, Drama
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 2h 30m
RELEASE DATE: December 19, 2014
STARRING: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Ruth Sheen
DIRECTOR(S): Mike Leigh
PRODUCER(S): Georgina Lowe
WRITER(S): Mike Leigh
STUDIO: Sony Pictures Classics