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The King's Speech

Colin Firth (Actor), Helena Bonham Carter (Actor), Tom Hooper (Director) Rated:
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Contributor Iain Canning, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Emile Sherman, Colin Firth, Gareth Unwin, Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Geoffrey Rush See more
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After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle. Based on the true story of King George VI, "The King's Speech" follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice.

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Candidates for president and prime minister choose to run, but kings rarely have a choice. Such was the case for Prince Albert, known by family members as Bertie (Colin Firth), whose stutter made public speaking difficult. Upon the death of his father, George V (Michael Gambon, making the most of a small part), the crown went to Bertie's brother, Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), who abdicated to marry divorcée Wallis Simpson. All the while, Bertie and his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter, excellent), try to find a solution to his stammer. Nothing works until they meet Australian émigré Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), a failed actor operating out of a threadbare office. He believes Bertie's problem stems from emotional rather than physiological issues, leading to a clash of wills that allows the Oscar®-winning Rush (Shine) and the Oscar-nominated Firth (A Single Man) to do some of their best work (in a neat bit of casting, Firth's Pride and Prejudice costar, Jennifer Ehle, plays Logue's wife). All their efforts, from the tense to the comic--Bertie doesn't stutter when he swears--lead to the speech King George VI must make to the British public on the eve of World War II. At a time when his country needs him the most, he can't afford to fail. As Stephen Frears did in The Queen, Tom Hooper (HBO's Elizabeth I) lends vulnerability to a royal figure, showing how isolating that life can be--and how much difference a no-nonsense friend like Logue can make. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 5.4 x 7.5 inches; 0.74 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 23130
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Tom Hooper
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 58 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ The Weinstein Company and Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003UESJH4
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ David Seidler
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Anita
5.0 out of 5 stars What a high vibrational person (Lionel) can do for someone else (Bertie)!
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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What a great example of bringing out your true self with the help of a person who understands what it is to be a unique person....Lionel brought out Bertie's confidence and was a high vibrational help for Bertie to get better...Bertie's children and wife were also loving and kind to Bertie....
If Bertie as a child would have been himself and just been loved for who he was, he would have been better off with his speech....not sure back then if they had vaccinations, metal fillings, or lots of toxins back then that could have also caused a problem with Bertie's/King George's health and mental wellness for speaking properly....
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Chuck Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful True Movie!
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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This Is An Excellent English True Story! You Should Know That This Movie Has Some Pretty Colorful Language So I Wouldn’t Show It To Children. I Love The Classical Music In This Movie Of The English Royal Family!
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RMurray847
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically well acted film & an unforgettable story
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2010
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I can enjoy fine movies with minimalist acting. Where the actors spend a lot of time saying nothing, but looking very serious, or hurt, or angry or whatever. The kind of the thing that lots of young American actors like to do these days. Where emotions are bottled up. This can be very effective.

But sometimes, you just want to have a good, old-fashioned wallow in the kind of meaty, no-holds barred acting that, frankly, the British do best. And the best, most satisfying example of that this year is THE KING'S SPEECH, a terrific, interesting, engrossing and surprisingly emotional film about a monarch who stutters.

In the years between the two great wars of the 20th Century, King George V ruled England and its colonies with a stern disposition and unshakeable self-confidence. His eldest son, Edward, is a dashing playboy type, but looks forward to his time on the throne. Younger son Albert ("Bertie") is shyer and more conservative...in large part because he has a rather pronounced stammer that years of consulting experts has done nothing to cure. He has a strong wife in Elizabeth, and dotes on his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. And he has no ambitions to be king.

His wife convinces him to start consulting with Speech Therapist Lionel Logue, a commoner with some highly uncomment techniques. Not only does he work on the mechanics of speech, but he believes that stammers also come from a psychological place as well. He's a sort of psychologist too. He works with the prince, insists that two men work on a first name basis, and through sheer force of his eccentric personality, begins to wear the reserved Albert down to the point where we learn much about his upbringing.

And then, as WWII nears, George V dies and Edward serves only briefly, because the scandal of his love affair with divorced American Wallace Simpson forces him from the throne...and George is horrified to find himself about to be crowned. And eventually, George will have to give perhaps the most important nationwide radio address anyone had ever given in England up to that point...a speech rallying his people to the cause of war. He can ill afford to stammer his way through a speech that needs to inspire confidence and patriotism.

It's a fascinating story, utterly engrossing. But it's the uniformly great acting that elevates this to such a high level. Small but effective parts are handled by folks such as Michael Gambon (King George V...excellent), Derek Jacobi as the archbishop, Guy Pearce as King Edward (he's quite good) and Jennifer Ehle in a small but delightful role as Logue's wife. Helena Bonham Carter is more restrained than usual, but also very effective as the Queen. She clearly dotes on her husband, which makes her very sympathetic, yet she also shows that the trappings and conventions of royalty suit her. The two appear to be that seeming rarity, a royal couple that are actually happy with each other. But all this great acting is just icing on the cake for the pure movie-going joy of watching Colin Firth (as King George VI) and Geoffrey Rush (as the uncommon commoner) go toe-to-toe. Both actors are at their finest.

Rush can incline towards the hammy (as in the PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN movies) but when the script matches his natural characteristics (such as the unappreciated QUILLS)...he's just a joy to watch. His timing is exquisite and his commitment to his work is amazing. And Firth, though a more "restrained" actor, chews into his role with understated ferocity (this seems to make no sense...but see the film and you'll understand). He makes his Bertie so sympathetic...but rather than just playing a shy stammerer, we see his integrity, his wit, his pain and his explosive temper. His struggle against the casual attitude Logue takes with him is so much fun to watch, as are the great moments these two have together when they discover how well the King speaks when he is cursing. The two develop an odd but deeply affecting friendship. I don't know if the film presents history accurately...but it sure presents history as it would be nice to believe it happened. Both actors should be slam dunks for Oscar nominations...and Firth will be hard to beat. It may be his best "upper class British" performance to date.

The film is a bit manipulative. The climactic moments being heavily punctuated with Beethoven seems a bit heavy handed. Some of the dialogue is just TOO good to be believed. But the two actors and their co-stars plow right through any weaknesses or pandering to the audience. A measure of the success of the film...my 23 year old son and 18 year old daughter loved it. For a film so far out of my son's comfort zone to grab him to the extent it did says a lot. This is a film worth seeking out and seeing immediately.
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Konrei
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Picture In Many A Year
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2011
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Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter turn in virtually flawless performances in this virtually flawless film which has a shot at making the Top 100 of All Time.

Firth plays King George VI, nee the Duke of York, familiarly known as "Bertie" to his family, who reigned over the Great British Empire from 1937 to 1951. As the second son of King George V and Queen Mary (she for whom the ocean liner was named), Bertie was "the reluctant King," who came to the throne after his brother David (King Edward VIII, nee the Prince of Wales, subsequently the Duke of Windsor) abdicated the British throne to marry "the woman he loved" the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson with whom he had been carrying on a dalliance for years. Mrs. Simpson continued affairs even while she dated the King, most infamously with Joachim Von Ribbentrop, one of Hitler's intimates, who sent her a fresh bouquet daily for years.

King Edward VIII was a clubman, a gambler, a womanizer and a moral and intellectual lightweight who was remarkable for his vacuous conversation, his patronizing racial and religious attitudes, and his opinion of Hitler as "not such a bad chap." In short, he was the wrong King at the wrong time, that being the prewar 1930s. With the world mired in Depression and being ruled by racialist dictators, it is an open question how he, as moral leader of Britain, would have responded to World War II. History tells us that the imperious and remote George V wanted Bertie to ascend the throne in lieu of David in any case.

Bertie, who was "prone to tears" as a sensitive child, was raised at a distance from his parents (quite common in those generations), was a left-hander forced to be a "rightie," was put into uncomfortable braces for being "knock-kneed," was subjected to ongoing physical and emotional neglect by his Governesses, and was teased by his siblings and peers for his stammer, which worsened as the years progressed. His father, unkind though well-meaning, berated him for his speech impediment and forced him to speak publicly, a humiliating experience.

In 1926 Bertie made the acquaintance of Lionel Logue, an unorthodox speech therapist who helped George VI become a great public speaker. Logue also became a close friend for the rest of the King's life, and aided him in making most of his public addresses.

Most of THE KING'S SPEECH focuses on Bertie's unexpected ascension of the throne and his duty to lead the British Empire in time of war using his words alone. In many ways George VI was unlucky; though media was coming into its own, in his reign particularly every speech was live, with recording and editing techniques that were exceptionally primitive. Given the era, a stuttering King would have been seen by most of his billion subjects as weak. And George VI faced a crisis in World War II that no British monarch has faced before or since. Thus, Logue's task was a herculean one.

Rush plays the Australian Logue brilliantly, eschewing a "Crocodile Dundee" accent for a caustic irreverence. Though this sometimes enrages the King, Logue speaks to him man to man not man to monarch, gaining his trust. He becomes the King's true brother. Their relationship, serious and comic by turns, makes this a "Buddy Film" nonpareil.

Firth is spectacular as the King. He never misses a beat, despite the difficulty of invoking a stutter where one is not present. He also shows us a kind, gentle, occasionally truculent, and altogether human King George VI, a man deeply in love with his wife and daughters (one the present Queen, Elizabeth II), dedicated to his nation, pained by his brother's lack of responsibility, agonizing over assuming a role he never wanted, and terrified of failing his subjects.

Helena Bonham Carter plays Queen Consort Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) as a warm iron hand in a velvet glove. Elizabeth has no pretensions at all; she simply loves her family, and embodies the old adage that "Behind Every Great Man There Stands a Woman," never failing to support and wisely counsel her husband, even when she takes him to task at one point for being unduly rude to Logue. "You apologize," she calmly advises, when he asks her what to do. She dries his tears. She stands by her man in the best way imaginable. Of everyone he knows, only she intimately feels the loneliness he knows in being the King-Emperor.

This is a film well worth seeing, and seeing many times, with the kind of depth that ensures its status as a true classic.
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MzMcLady
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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So happy to get this.
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Great acting!
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars The King's Speech
Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2024
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I love this movie. I have seen it many times, but now have my own copy.
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Excelente producto
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen titulo
Reviewed in Mexico on October 29, 2023
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La película viene en audio latino
El estuche llegó de buena calidad
Y la portada también

Este título tiene que estar en cualquier coleccion
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bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2024
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Good dvd
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bp77
5.0 out of 5 stars très beau ; à voir et revoir
Reviewed in France on March 4, 2024
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beau film intéressant tant sur l'étude des relations humaines que sur le plan historique . je recommande vivement ; . A voir également le film Les heures sombres . je recommande; bp77
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Francesco Calvi
5.0 out of 5 stars Capolavoro!
Reviewed in Italy on October 16, 2022
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Un film che è letteralmente un capolavoro. Basato sulla storia vera di re Giorgio VI e del suo logopedista, Lionel Logue, è un viaggio non solo attraverso fatti storici, ma anche e soprattutto in sé stessi.
Curando la balbuzie di re Giorgio, Logue non si limita a trattare solo la superficie, ma scava nel profondo, capendo e facendo capire al re quali erano le effettive ragioni del suo difetto.
Attraverso questa storia si arriva così a capire che ognuno di noi ha una voce e che ha diritto di essere ascoltato!
Interpretazione commovente e magistrale di Colin Firth (non a caso premio Oscar) e superba quella di Geoffrey Rush, nei panni di Lionel Logue.
Un film da vedere e rivedere, perché ogni volta lascia un pò di consapevolezza in più.
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