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Release Date: 1994

Cast: Charlotte Curley, Anthony Calf, Adrian Scarborough, Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Wadham, Ian Holm, Jim Carter, John Wood, Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett ...MORE

Cast: Charlotte Curley, Anthony Calf, Adrian Scarborough, Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Wadham, Ian Holm, Jim Carter, John Wood, Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Historical Film, Comedy, Drama Film, Period Piece, Biographical Film, Political Drama, Biography, Political Cinema, Comedy Of Manners, Costume Drama

The Madness of King George is a 1994 film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788. Modern medicine has suggested the King's symptoms were the result of acute intermittent porphyria. The film depicts the relatively primitive medical practices of the time and the suppositions that physicians made in their efforts to... MORE

The Madness of King George is a 1994 film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788. Modern medicine has suggested the King's symptoms were the result of acute intermittent porphyria. The film depicts the relatively primitive medical practices of the time and the suppositions that physicians made in their efforts to understand the human body. After King George III begins to go mad, his doctors attempt cures such as blistering and purges, led on particularly by the Prince of Wales' personal physician, Dr Warren. Meanwhile, another of the King's physicians, Dr. Pepys, analyzes the King's stool and urine believing that body wastes may contain some clue to the Royal malady; of course, none of these attempts to cure the King actually works. Finally, Lady Pembroke, attendant to the Queen, recommends Dr. Willis, an ex-minister who attempts to cure the insane through behavior modification, and who begins his restoration LESS