Advantages: Talented Cast, Fantastic Story, Fictional, Cheap Disadvantages: Lack Of Extra Features
...looking around found this film. The Madness of King George is the story of King George III, and follows his life as he goes through a rare, heredetory disease which causes the sufferer to temporarily go made. The film actually began life as a stage drama by the critically a-claimed Alan Bennett. This is a true story which has been edited to make it that even bit better for our screens.
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*Nigel Hawthorne fantastically plays King George, as he ... ...sometimes defy and completely outwitt the doctors. Alan Bennett is quoted as saying that he would not allow the film to go ahead, unless Hawthorne was King George. He was the one who skillfully played him in the highly successful play adaption. This role seems to come so naturally to Hawthorne and the acting is 5 star. *Helen Mirren is a natural born Queen! He role as Queen Charlotte shows her becoming the caring wife who produced so many children ...
scotlandizdabest 31.01.2009
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Advantages: First-rate acting, attention to period detail, moving but with moments of light relief Disadvantages: References to bodily functions might be a bit too much for the squeamish (see review)
...Alan Bennett, later adapted for the cinema. The author admitted in his preface to the play that ever since his schooldays he had always had a soft spot for King George III, and his sympathy comes through strongly in this poignant, sometimes satirical, occasionally funny tale of his first bout of madness. The action takes place in 1788-89. King George (Nigel Hawthorne) has been on the throne for nearly thirty years. Despite a less than stellar track ... ...own domestic life until, at the age of fifty, he is troubled by severe abdominal pains. Soon he starts to behave irrationally, rising early and running across the fields in his nightshirt, failing to remember names, becoming aggressive towards his family and making improper suggestions to Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren)'s lady-in-waiting, Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe). The incompetent doctors are at a loss as to what to do, beyond the odd bout of ...
JOHNV 13.05.2005
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