Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is the blockbuster modern update of the classic legend, that took the box office and popular culture by storm upon its release in 1991. Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Tin Cup) is imprisoned far from home having fought in the Crusades, and makes a daring escape with a Mooris comapnion Azeem (Morgan Freeman, Seven, Glory, The Shawshank Redemption), who becomes attached to the hip with him, determined to pay back his courtesy of the Englishman having saved his life. Locksley returns home to England to find his castle stormed, his father murdered and his servent blinded and feeble. The Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman, Die Hard, Dogma) has taken his land by force and seeks to rule in the place of King Richard, who is off fighting the Crusades as well, and who is currently ruling the countryside with an iron fist. Robin vows revenge, turns outlaw and, with the help of a band of outlaw woodsman turns the tables on the Sheriff and begins a campaign to take the land back from him.moreless