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Madness of King George
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305812319
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6305812314
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 28, 1994
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Editorial Review:
Nicholas Hytner had an international stage phenomenon with Alan Bennett's play The Madness of King George, starring Nigel Hawthorne as King George III, the British monarch who lost the American colonies. But in this film adaptation, Hytner unfortunately yields to the old temptation to "open up" the piece with lots of arbitrary exteriors, rushed set pieces, choppy editing, and so on, robbing Hawthorne's acclaimed stage performance of coherency and power on the big screen. Viewers are forced to fill in emotional gaps for themselves (and try to imagine what Bennett's work must have looked and felt like originally), and the whole enterprise has a pseudo-cinematic, self-congratulatory air. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Watching this movie is time well spent
My wife and I really enjoyed this memorable movie. The acting is superb and the story original (as well as historic). This movie is they type of quality that only comes out once in a while. We watched this movie to the end and waited to read all of the credits.
Rating:  - Majesty All Powerful and All Knowing. But He Wasn't Quite All There.
"Playwright Alan Bennett, who adapted his own stage work, takes as his inspiration a time when George III -- the George who lost the North American colonies -- appears to have also lost his mind. What happens, Bennett asks, when a man can no longer project the power required of a ruler? And in its absence, what fills the psychological space where power used to reside." Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nigel Hawthorne spares no facial grimace nor utterance as he portrays King George III who loses ... Read More
Rating: - A mad, brilliant film
"You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like moulten lead."
~ King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7
The words of Shakespeare's Lear, when murmured by Nigel Hawthorne in his haunting performance as George III, contain within them all the agony of the mad king. George III, separated from his family, bereft of power, stripped of all dignity, sits in a meadow and reads Shakespeare with ... Read More
Rating: - The Madness of King George
When I first heard of this film I remember hearing how funny people thought this film was, how they liked making fun of the King, and so on. But when seeing it, I realized how sad and depressing it was. I for one wouldn't put it as a comedy. True, a few moments where light and warmed your heart, but for the most part its sad and bittersweet. I found myself crying throughout the show.
The acting was brilliant and the script was moving and it truly shows how George III suffered.
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Rating: - Great Film
I haven't had a chance yet to watch my DVD. But I went to the show to see thim movie when it first came out & I've seen it on HBO a couple times. It's just a great film & I've always wanted to buy it.
The Madness of King George
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