Directed by:
Nicholas HytnerCinematography:
Andrew DunnCast:
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Calf, John Wood, Nicholas Selby (more)VOD (1)
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Just five years after losing the 'rebellious colonies, it appears that England's King George III (Hawthorne) is now losing his mind! Suddenly, the stately monarch is hallucinating, shouting obscenities, behaving lewdly towards the Queen's (Helen Mirren) comelylady-in-waiting and generally becoming a candidate for the lunatic asylum. The palace doctors are baffled, but the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett), tired of playing the waiting game, conspires to take advantage of the situation. Will the King's supporters be able to restore their monarch's wits before he's stripped of his throne? (official distributor synopsis)
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It is a question of how much we can currently be happy about the progress that medicine has brought us, or whether we should have been happy before about ignorance. But ignorance leads to mistakes, which this film beautifully shows, moreover in Nigel Hawthorne's masterful acting performance. Madness simply is not always madness.
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