King Lear

Movie

2018

1h 55m

TV-14

English

Drama, TV Movie

User Score:

6.3

Critic Score:

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An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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King Lear

TV-14

Movie

2018

1h 55m

English

Drama, TV Movie

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Watch on Kanopy

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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6.3

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Cast

Lear

Goneril

Regan

Earl of Gloucester

Cordelia

Earl of Kent

Edgar

Edmund

Duke of Cornwall

Duke of Albany

Fool

Christopher Eccleston

Oswald

Butler

Duke of Burgundy

King of France

Lear's Gentleman

Lieutenant

1st Maid

2nd Maid

French Officer

Doctor

Young Captain

Sergeant Major

Soldier

Officer (Dover Castle)

Directed By: Richard Eyre

Written By: Richard Eyre

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Earthsconflict says...

6 years ago

This is a great watch as long as you enjoy William Shakespeare,the could not have made such a fantastic choice in Sir Anthony Hopkins to play King Lear.....

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OneTouchGuy says...

4 years ago

I've seen King Lear as a play first, before watching this. I feel like this modern adaptation didn't work. Although it was a good effort, it didn't entirely capture as it would be as a play. Adapting the delivery on-screen rather than on-stage felt awkward and I felt that the characters couldn't entirely encapsulate the emotional range on-screen. The "modern" elements didn't work well and the fight scene between Edgar and Edmund was not great at all. It may have been better if this was set in the past, rather than trying to incorporate modern elements as it loses the authenticity and brings up huge plot holes.

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Bertaut

7/10 2 years ago

A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance

The thing about seeing a performance of a part in a play or literary adaptation (or really any acting role) that one comes to regard as "definitive", is that such a performance will have a detrimental effect on one's ability to objectively ju More

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Stephen Campbell

5 years ago

**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_**

> _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: More

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