Unusually faithful, magnificently performed.
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03/07/03
The Madness of King George (1995)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:38
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: King George III does some very odd things, but then who is to argue with the king? Well, his ambitious son, for one. He's not getting any younger, and all he does is sit around waiting for his... [More]
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Amanda Donohoe
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Reviews for The Madness of King George
No review available.
12/19/02
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11/12/02
Shows how illness can turn one's world upside down and test one's mettle.
08/30/02
No review available.
07/31/02
Hawthorne is so good it almost hurts to watch.
07/27/02
No review available.
07/26/02
In its own shambling, elliptical way it's an entertaining, memorable movie whose 2 1/2 hours go by without strain.
06/18/02
Hawthorne is by turn outrageous and pathetic and imperious and poignant and very funny.
04/12/02
We emotionally invest in the king, who is not simply a big joke but a vulnerable and somehow loveable fool.
10/09/01
The thrill of Hawthorne's astounding performance is not something you want to miss.
05/12/01
No review available.
01/01/01
One of the unlikeliest but most likable movies of the 1990s.
01/01/00
Funny, witty and with plenty of modern-day resonance, this is top-of-the-line British filmmaking.
01/01/00
Thankfully, most of the humor here works, but on the whole, the film falls to mediocrity.
01/01/00
[Hawthorne] turns what would surely be an unsympathetic role in lesser hands into something poetic -- and hysterical.
01/01/00
Somehow ... this frail figure [George] is an immensely likable -- and, at times, deeply moving -- character.
01/01/00
Without exception, the acting is top-notch.
01/01/00
An eloquent, many-sided study of the effects of absolute power.
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