"The King's Speech" (2010)

UK Film Council, See-Saw Films, Bedlam Productions

The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. At the closing of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, the Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V, addresses them with a strong stammer. His search for treatment has been discouraging, but his wife Elizabeth persuades him to see the Australian-born Lionel Logue, a non-medically trained Harley Street speech defects therapist. "Bertie," as he is called by his family, believes the first session is not going well although Lionel (he insists that all his patients address him as such) manages to have the potential client recite, on an acetate recording, Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy sublimely all the while hearing piped-in classical music on a pair of head phones. Bertie is disappointed and Lionel gives him the recording as a souvenir.

Release date: 6 September 2010 (Telluride Film Festival), 7 January 2011 (UK)

Genre': Biography

Director: Tom Hooper

Produced by: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Written by: David Seidler
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Edited by: Tariq Anwar

Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon

Official Website: https://www.kingsspeech.com/

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