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Directed by:
Nicholas Hytner 
Written by:
Alan Bennett (LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD - BRITISH SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR, AAN), from his own play The Madness of George III
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| Released: |
1995 |
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| Genre: |
DRAMA
COSTUME
BIOPIC
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| Origin: |
GB |
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| Length: |
110 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | | The virtue of this film is that it is happy to be an entertainment, and not an education. | | | | | (Ed Porter, Modern Review) | | | All of this could be the material for a solemn historical biopic, but Bennett's play, and the direction by Nicholas Hytner, are more lighthearted than analytical, and the performance by Nigel Hawthorne as the ailing king is barbed and yet lovable: madness burns in his eyes, but also sweetness and vulnerability, and when he lashes out at his court and accosts its ladies, we sense his suffering... I am not sure anyone but Nigel Hawthorne could have brought such qualities to this role. | | | | | (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) | | | Film brings us a Hawthorne quality that escaped me in the theater: his resemblance, in face and voice and speech and flavor, to Ralph Richardson. Wonderful. Film can certainly use such an actor. | | | | | (Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic) | |
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