Tom Jones

The storyThe lore 📖

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

Tom Jones is a charming, chaotic orphan raised by a kind squire in 1700s England, and trouble follows him everywhere like a pet 💀. He's crushing on Sophie, but she's from a fancier family and everyone is against it. Cue sword fights, mix-ups, chases, and a whole lot of goofy misadventures as Tom tries to prove he's the one. Absolute rascal era 🎩.

What critics & audiences sayThe receipts 🧾

Tomatometer 83% Fresh #82 of 98 winners

IMDb 6.3 16K votes #95 of 98 winners

Metacritic 77 / 100 #69 of 93 winners

TMDB 5.9 / 10

Filming locationsWhere they shot it 📍

• Cerne Abbas

  Dorset, England

  Abbey Street and the Royal Oak in this village were among the film's major locations.

  Map ↗About this place ↗Source: Wikipedia · Filming

• Cerne Abbey

  Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England

  The remains of the medieval abbey were used as one of the major locations of the film.

  Map ↗About this place ↗Source: Wikipedia · Filming

• Castle Street

  Bridgwater, Somerset, England

  The historic street was used as a location in several scenes of the film.

  Map ↗About this place ↗Source: Wikipedia · Filming

Fun factsFacts that go hard 🤓

1. Albert Finney's Tom Jones breaks the fourth wall, at one point noticing the camera and covering the lens with his hat.Wikipedia · Development
2. Made on a budget of $1 million, Tom Jones earned over $17 million in US and Canadian theater rentals, and Albert Finney received 10% of the film's earnings.Wikipedia · Box office
3. Despite its success, director Tony Richardson called the film 'incomplete and botched' and wrote that whenever someone gushed about it, he would 'cringe a little inside.'Wikipedia · Development
4. Tom Jones is the only film in Oscar history to have three actresses nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and none of them won.Wikipedia · Accolades
5. After producer Ilya Lopert, who accepted the Best Picture Oscar, died, his estate gave the statuette to Albert Finney.Wikipedia · Accolades
6. The film got made in color only because the original British production company, Bryanston Films, went bankrupt while hesitating over it, and United Artists stepped in.Wikipedia · Development
7. The opening sequence plays like a silent film, with intertitles and brisk action, and an unseen narrator voiced by Micheál Mac Liammóir comments mock-seriously throughout.Wikipedia · Development
8. Its five acting nominations without a single win matched the record set by Peyton Place, and Tom Jones was the last film to match it.Wikipedia · Accolades
9. Time magazine called it 'a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema' and 'a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe.'Wikipedia · Critical reception
10. Tom Jones marked the film debut of David Warner, and was shot on location in places including Cerne Abbas and Castle Street in Bridgwater, Somerset.Wikipedia · Filming