The King's Speech (2010)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 233
Fresh: 219 | Rotten: 14
Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama.
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 2
Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama.
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After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush).
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Cast
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Colin Firth
George 'Bertie' VI, Kin... -
Geoffrey Rush
Lionel Logue -
Helena Bonham Carter
Queen Elizabeth, Queen ... -
Guy Pearce
King Edward VIII -
Timothy Spall
Winston Churchill -
Derek Jacobi
Archbishop Cosmo Lang -
Jennifer Ehle
Myrtle Logue -
Michael Gambon
King George V -
Robert Portal
Equerry -
Richard M. Dixon
Private Secretary -
Paul Trussell
Chauffeur -
Adrian Scarborough
BBC Radio Announcer -
Andrew Havill
Robert Wood -
Charles Armstrong
BBC Technician -
Roger Hammond
Dr. Blandine-Bentham -
Calum Gittins
Laurie Logue -
Dominic Applewhite
Valentine Logue -
Ben Wimsett
Anthony Logue -
Freya Wilson
Princess Elizabeth -
Ramona Marquez
Princess Margaret -
David Bamber
Theatre Director -
Jake Hathaway
Willie -
Patrick Ryecart
Lord Wigram -
Teresa Gallagher
Nurse -
Simon Chandler
Lord Dawson -
Claire Bloom
Queen Mary -
Orlando Wells
Duke of Kent -
Tim Downie
Duke of Goucester -
Dick Ward
Butler -
Eve Best
Wallis Simpson -
John Albasiny
Footman -
Danny Emes
Boy in Regent's Park -
Anthony Andrews
Stanley Baldwin -
John Warnaby
Steward -
Roger Parrott
Neville Chamberlain
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All Critics (233) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (221) | Rotten (14) | DVD (13)
A powerful back story does not necessarily improve a movie, but The King's Speech has a pretty irresistible one. It might even end with a dramatic night at the Oscars in February.
In The King's Speech, Colin Firth once again reminds us of what a great actor he is.
Classic, rousing entertainment loaded with both humor and poignancy.
The King's Speech is the rare work of art that's also an immense crowdpleaser.
Too ingratiating to resonate deeply.
The King's Speech is simultaneously cozy and majestic.
It is a wonderful entertainment, a fascinating history lesson and a showcase for several delightful performances.
A polite, occasionally rousing, and more often than not, boring affair.
A charming, personal period drama.
See it, then say it for yourself: The King's Speech is the best movie of 2010.
With a backdrop this large, The King's Speech can't help but seem monosyllabic.
It's a fine, absorbing work, built with brilliance and without excessive showiness or flash. It feels, in fact, like a classic virtually upon its arrival.
The relationship between a commoner teacher and regal student provides for enough drama, and the obstacle overcome is both inspiring and unique.
Polished, thoughtful and touching.
Inspiring, funny, touching, and delivered with craftsmanship and artistry.
It's refreshing to see a historical drama avoid grand gestures and sweeping melodrama in favor of smaller more intimate stories.
The King's Speech is admirably free of easy answers and simple, happy endings; it's a skewed, awards-ready version of history, but one polished to a fine, satisfying shine.
A feel-good movie with a hearty dose of history and a hint of edge, a most-deserving Oscar winner
Despite the obvious movie structure that gets forced onto historical events, The King's Speech is a terrific film with great performances and an inspiring story.
It's not quite the world-beating effort the British film press might have you thinking it is, but it's a perfectly functional, frequently enjoyable biopic that knows the right buttons to push and has all the right people pushing them.
It's a wonderfully delightful film filled with great performances, particularly from Firth and Rush. This is one of the best films of the year and should not be missed.
Audience Reviews for The King's Speech
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- George 'Bertie' VI: For the second time in the lives of most of us we are at war. Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies. But it has been in vain. We have been forced into a conflict. For we are called, with our allies, to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world. Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right. For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, and of the world?s order and peace, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge. It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home and my peoples across the seas, who will make our cause their own. I ask them to stand calm and firm, and united in this time of trial. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield. But we can only do the right as we see the right and reverently commit our cause to God.
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- George 'Bertie' VI: I'm not here to discuss personal matters.
- Lionel Logue: Why are you here then?
- George 'Bertie' VI: Because I bloody well stammer!
- Lionel Logue: Temper.
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- George 'Bertie' VI: If I'm King, where's my power? Can I form a government? Can I levy a tax, declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority. Why? Because the nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak.
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- Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.
- George 'Bertie' VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
- Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
- George 'Bertie' VI: They've all been knighted.
- Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.
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- Queen Elizabeth: I intend to be a very great queen...to a very great king.
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- Lionel Logue: Do you know The 'F word'?
- George 'Bertie' VI: F-F-Fornication?
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