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28/05/2018 Drama, TV Movie 1h 55m
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Overview

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

  1. Richard Eyre

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Anthony Hopkins

    Lear

  2. Emma Thompson

    Goneril

  3. Emily Watson

    Regan

  4. Jim Broadbent

    Earl of Gloucester

  5. Florence Pugh

    Cordelia

  6. Jim Carter

    Earl of Kent

  7. Andrew Scott

    Edgar

  8. John Macmillan

    Edmund

  9. Tobias Menzies

    Duke of Cornwall

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Reviews

A review by Stephen Campbell
Written by Stephen Campbell on 2019-04-18
**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_**

> _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual: the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano: they are storms turning up and disclosing to t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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