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King Lear Play Trailer

King Lear (2008)

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Release Date: Aug 1, 2008 Wide

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King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about

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Apr 21, 2009

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I feel like this adaptation skims through the first quarter of the play and doesn't really get good until about the halfway mark when Ian McKellen really gets great.
March 18, 2009
SunilJawahir

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For a PBS production, you can't ask for much better than this. Good performances all around, though Ian McKellen certainly steals the show and is phenomenal. The set design is definitely the hardest part of the production to look past.
March 21, 2012
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