One Night With the King

One Night With the King (2006)

  • 19% of critics liked it
    (26 reviews)

  • 79% of users liked it
    (30,924 ratings)

When a beautiful young slave girl learns that her people are about to fall victim to a horrible act of genocide, she will be forced to choose between realizing her wildest dreams or stepping into the pages of history to embrace her destiny in an epic tale of one young girl who rises from peasant to… More

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PG,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
In Theaters
Oct 13, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Jan 30, 2007
Gener8Xion Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times

    Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?

  • Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

    The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    Esther's triumph isn't because of divine intervention. It's her humanity and bravery that make her a legend, and make that One Night worth remembering, 2,500 years later.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    Unfortunately [O'Toole and Sharif are] separated by five centuries, and never share a scene. For a movie with the most righteous of intentions, that's perhaps the most grievous moviemaking sins of all.

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Wahida K


    The film generally adheres to the main plot of the Biblical narrative. However, the film adds stylistic elements not present in the Biblical story. The Jewish narrative of the relationship between Esther (Tiffany Dupont) and Ahasuerus (treated as Xerxes I of Persia in this, as in many… More

  • Bruce B


    This was an Outstanding Movie, If you have traveled Western Europe or The Middle east, the scenes were so real, colors excellent, The Costumes were unbeleivable. This was a great movie, Do yourself a big favor get it, thank You Fox Family Video

  • Ginny  


    Close to perfect, a rendition of the book of Esther. If I didnt know the story in the book I would have rated this 5 stars. <br><br>its not a bad rendition, I just didnt give it 5 stars cuz I think they missed to "portray" a few things about Esther. Still, yknow.… More

  • Panta O


    [size=5][color=blue][b]ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING (2006)[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://www.cineplex.com.au/movie/images/movies/large/onenightwiththeking.jpg[/img] [color=brown][b]Epski film u kome se mesaju avantura, intriga i romantika u prici mlade jevrejske devojke, koja menja… More

  • Dannielle A


    I was very disappointed that it didn't line up 100 percent biblically. But for being a movie based on the Bible, it could have been a lot worse.

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