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Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2011)

The King's Speech
Oh, great, a British king is about to speak – now I'm going to need a Cockney slang to lucid English dictionary.
And while the articulating monarch in this drama ain't 'aving a giraffe, his North and South is all out of sorts.
Following a public decree, where he stumbled over his words, Prince Albert (Colin Firth), on the behest of his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), seeks the aid of an experimental speech therapist, Lionel (Geoffrey Rush), in an attempt to alleviate his speech impediment.
Apprehensive with the unorthodox treatment at first, when he ascends to the throne of England, Albert finds remedy in his friend's madness, as well as a secret past.
Though a superlative cast graces it, this recounting of actual events is nothing but a pretentious factoid prolonged into a humdrum historical recollection.
And while a stuttering king is startling, it's not as shocking as a lisping queen. (Yellow Light)
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