2010 -THE KING'S SPEECH, there will always be an England especially in the movies

The future King of England has a bad stammer, he hires Professor Henry Higgins an Australian speech therapist to get over his stuttering.

Lots of good acting from a bunch of English actors in yet another story about the trials and tribulations of the poor Windsor family.  According to this film the fate of England rests on the ability of an Australian actor to cure the King's stuttering.  In reality, King George VI presided over the breakup of the British empire but that would hardly have been the heartwarming story all of us bloody commoners were waiting to see.

There's nothing especially bad about The King's Speech.  It has two very good actors in Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.  The photography is nice, it has some pretty scenery.  The issue is does anyone really care?

Well apparently a lot of people care because this film is a reasonable hit. This is the kind of respectable gush that everyone is comfortable giving awards to, a nice safe middle class film about their upper class betters.

To bad nobody broke out into "The Rain In Spain," during all those speech therapy sessions, at least that would have been worth a jolly good snicker or two. 

118 Masterpiece Theater minutes.