Year 2014 Theatrical Release 2014-12-19 Video Release 2015-05-05 Studio Sony Pictures Classics Genre Drama MPAA Rating R CARA some sexual content Color Color Runtime 150 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis MR. TURNER 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. Director Mike Leigh Cast Mike Leigh; Timothy Spall; Lesley Manville; Tom Edden; Paul Jesson; Dorothy Atkinson; Marion Bailey; Sandy Foster