An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
- Bleak ending
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Overwhelming, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Anthony HopkinsLear
- Emma ThompsonGoneril
- Emily WatsonRegan
- Jim BroadbentEarl of Gloucester
- Florence PughCordelia
- Jim CarterEarl of Kent
- Andrew ScottEdgar
- John MacmillanEdmund
- Tobias MenziesDuke of Cornwall
- Anthony CalfDuke of Albany
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- Richard EyreDirector
- Richard EyreWriter
- Ben SmithardDirector of Photography
- Stephen WarbeckOriginal Music Composer
- Dan FarrellEditor
- Noëlette BuckleyProducer
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