Great View of a Lesser Known Period in England

Rating: 9/10 (4 January 2015)

This is the wonderful story of the efforts by an unconventional speech teacher and a monarch. George VI grows up in a period where it mattered internationally what a king would say and how he said it. It was necessary for the people of Britain to have faith because they were in great need of substantiation, having to make a speech of great importance. Enter Lionel Logue, played by the inimitable Geoffrey Rush. He pulls himself from the sycophantic ineffectiveness of others and attacks the inabilities to deliver a speech by using unconventional, earthy methods to get the King to do his thing. I don't know if it happened that way. I'm hoping it did. But it's a great story. Colin Firth does a wonderful job as the British monarch and there are some nice minor performance, including Helena Bonham Carter as the King's better half. Beautifully directed and produced.