i keep wait for peter fonda to start act . for someone who come from such a talented family and it a mystery to me why peter fonda can only play peter fonda try to play someone else . and and that the good news in this disappointing dog of an adaptation of the tempest . a string of loosely connect idea that only suggest a relationship with the bard great play be what be serve . the setting be the civil war and prospero ( here guideon ) evil brother look like an 1890 melodrama villain and complete with snidely whiplash moustache . i keep wait for him to go uh ha hah . which would have be a high point in this dreary presentation . none of the support cast be memoriable and peter fonda lack of expression and wooden body movement make the lackadaisical story drag on and on . the tempest be the bard statement about the rage of man unjust treatment of man . the only believable character be the gator man and the caliban counterpart . the transferrence to the swamp have possibility but the civil war set just do not make it . all in all and a very disappointing production . i saw it on video and would advise and if you want a willy shakespeare fix and save your money on this one . rent something else and like branagh much ado about nothing and or kevin kline in midsummer night dream .