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Release Date: 2010   Duration: 110 min

Cast: Calum Gittins, Roger Hammond, Andrew Havill, Eve Best, Adrian Scarborough, Colin Firth, Ramona Marquez, Richard Dixon, Mary Robinson, Anthony Andrews, Filippo Delaunay, Guy Pearce ...MORE

Cast: Calum Gittins, Roger Hammond, Andrew Havill, Eve Best, Adrian Scarborough, Colin Firth, Ramona Marquez, Richard Dixon, Mary Robinson, Anthony Andrews, Filippo Delaunay, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Robert Portal, Geoffrey Rush, Timothy Spall, Charles Armstrong, Michael Gambon, Ben Wimsett, Tim Downie, Paul Trussell, Max Callum, Helena Bonham Carter, Dominic Applewhite, Sean Talo, Jennifer Ehle, Freya Wilson ...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...  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, Queen Elizabeth 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 at Elland Road, Leeds and Odsal Stadium, Bradford, both locations standing in for the old Wembley Stadium. For indoor scenes, Lancaster House substituted for Buckingham Palace, and Ely Cathedral stood in for Westminster Abbey. The weaving mill scene was filmed at the Queens street weaving mill in Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancs, believed to be the only working weaving mill left in the country. The cinematography differs from that of other historical dramas: hard light was used to give the story a greater resonance and wider than normal lenses were employed to recreate the King's feelings of constriction. A third technique Hooper employed was the off-centre framing of characters: in his first consultation with Logue, George VI is captured hunched on the side of a couch at the edge of the frame. LESS