Good movie

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2010)

As a former Canadian, I grew up in the British Empire and lived through WW II. I was mesmerized as a boy listening to King Edward's radio speech of abdication for "...the woman I love". In the film she appears as an evil seductress (close to the truth!). The actor playing Winston Chuchill appears grotesque. Everyone else is superb. The times were momentous and the high drama of the British Royal family served a useful purpose. The English people and the rest of the free world were rallied to oppose the Nazi hordes. Hitler soon ruled over all of Europe. England was next, and very nearly fell to a Nazi invasion. Now comes this movie based on a ridiculous notion, a drama about a speech therapist and his patient with an intractable stammer. Their eventual triumph as King George VI in his radio address rallies the free world brought the theater audience to a round of applause, well deserved.