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Release Date: 2010

Cast: Calum Gittins, Geoffrey Rush, Paul Trussell, Guy Pearce, Roger Hammond, Max Callum, Michael Gambon, Charles Armstrong, Richard Dixon, Robert Portal, Dominic Applewhite, Tim Downie ...MORE

Cast: Calum Gittins, Geoffrey Rush, Paul Trussell, Guy Pearce, Roger Hammond, Max Callum, Michael Gambon, Charles Armstrong, Richard Dixon, Robert Portal, Dominic Applewhite, Tim Downie, Helena Bonham Carter, Filippo Delaunay, Mary Robinson, Sean Talo, Colin Firth, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Anthony Andrews, Eve Best, Andrew Havill, Freya Wilson, Adrian Scarborough, Ramona Marquez, Ben Wimsett, Jennifer Ehle ...LESS

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The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new King relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939. Seidler read about George VI's life after overcoming a stuttering condition he endured during his youth. He started writing... MORE

The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new King relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939. Seidler read about George VI's life after overcoming a stuttering condition he endured during his youth. He started writing about the relationship between the monarch and his therapist as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King's widow the Queen Mother, postponed work until her death in 2002. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the essential relationship between the two protagonists. Nine weeks before filming began, Logue's notebooks were discovered and quotations from them were incorporated into the script. Principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. The opening scenes were filmed in Elland Road, Leeds (for the since-demolished LESS