The Madness of King George PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 31, 2017
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe, Rupert Graves & Rupert Everett | |
Performer: | Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Anthony Calf & Adrian Scarborough | |
Directed by | Nicholas Hytner | |
Edited by | Tariq Anwar | |
Screenplay by | Alan Bennett | |
Composition by | George Fenton | |
Produced by | Stephen Evans & David Parfitt | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Dunn |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1995 -
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Entertainment Reviews:
Hawthorne is by turn outrageous and pathetic and imperious and poignant and very funny.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 4/5 --
Flawless acting. Hawthorne was robbed of an Oscar. Sorry, but it's true.
Needcoffee.com
...[Hawthorne] has a blast....Mirren is marvelous....But the real treat is Everett...
Premiere
...Brisk, confident direction....It manages the rare feat of being both cinematic and theatrical...
Sight and Sound
Rating: A- --
Hytner's version of Bennett's comic-tragic drama of the tormented king who almost lost his mind confirms that power games, family scandals, and personal intrigues have always been integral to the British Crown, an institution both revered and reviled.
Variety
...Potent, engrossing and even thrilling to experience....THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE keeps us amused, surprised and delighted...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Respectable actors aside, it's no more than a dryasdust history lesson.
eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
King George III does some very odd things, but then who is to argue with the king' Well, his ambitious son, for one. He's not getting any younger, and all he does is sit around waiting for his father to die. So when the king starts behaving like a real madman, the Prince of Wales lobbies Parliament to assign him the power of prince regent. What ensues is a political struggle between the prime minister, a royalist, and the opposition party. In the meantime, the king is slowly being tortured by the strange practices of 18th-century medicine: He is bled regularly, and his feces are analyzed by all manner of doctors. To rectify this atrocity, the king's distressed entourage solicits the aid of a country doctor who's as unsuccessful as his predecessors but a little more humane. When it seems as if he will be forced to abdicate his throne, George III regains his sanity just in time to assure the Parliament that he's able to rule. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and featuring an Oscar-nominated tour-de-force performance from Nigel Hawthorne, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE is an unforgettable romp through a crucial period in English history.
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- Sales Rank: 64,485
- UPC: 887090138413
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