The Kings Speech

Rated:M
Duration:118 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Hooper (Red Dust 2004 and Damned United 2009) 

If you want a movie that is purely character driven and the actors immerse themselves so deep within the role that you forget you are watching actors, then go see The Kings Speech.

Colin Firth plays King George VI and was Queens Elizabeth's Dad.  At the beginning of the film he ain't the King but just a Prince with a wife and two kids and of course a bloody bad stutter.  Sadly for George he needs to give speeches every now and again, as you do when you are a Prince and this of course is somewhat of a health hazard.  In his attempt to rectify the situation he comes across some interesting remedies.  Finally through his wife, played by Helena Bonham Carter, he comes across an aussie bloke named Lionel, Geoffrey Rush and as they say 'The rest is history'.  Guy Pearce is a lovely presence as the tormented older son who by the death of his Father inherits the thorne but because of the love for an American Divorcee, Wallace Simpson, must abdicate and therefore 'Stutter' is thrust right into the limelight.

Colin Firth's abililty to make you believe his stutter will be the death of him and the pulpable frustration with wanting to speak but cannot is superbly acted out.  Geoffrey Rush is just lovely on screen and when 'George and Lionel' are together you just know everything will be ok.

Stay till the end becuase some information comes up that was quite touching.