Movie #353 "The Madness of King George" concerned a king in history I knew little about --- I had no idea that King George (the one we beat in the Revolutionary War) had dementia and what the people around him tried to do to him. Wow! It was a real eye opener, and the film was well acted with Helen Mirren playing his wife, and Rupert Evert playing his son (very funny part). There were things I couldn't always follow in the film (wish I knew more details about the history of the times), but what I learned in the film was well worth the time it took to watch this.
Average rating: 3.538
I gave it 3 stars
The Madness of King George
(1994) PG-13
The dementia of King George III -- the English monarch who lost the war to keep the American colonies -- ignites a flurry of political and familial treachery in this comical biopic that earned Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren a pair of Oscar nods. Based on Alan Bennett's play, the film provides insight into the primitive medical practices of the time and co-stars Ian Holm, Rupert Graves and Rupert Everett.
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