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King Lear

2018 · 1h 55m

Directed by Richard Eyre

6.0

TMDB audience score
111 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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Cast

  • Anthony Hopkins
    Lear

  • Emma Thompson
    Goneril

  • Emily Watson
    Regan

  • Jim Broadbent
    Earl of Gloucester

  • Florence Pugh
    Cordelia

  • Jim Carter
    Earl of Kent

  • Andrew Scott
    Edgar

  • John Macmillan
    Edmund

  • Tobias Menzies
    Duke of Cornwall

  • Anthony Calf
    Duke of Albany

  • Karl Johnson
    Fool

  • Christopher Eccleston
    Oswald

  • John Standing
    Butler

  • Simon Manyonda
    Duke of Burgundy

  • Chukwudi Iwuji
    King of France

  • Samuel Valentine
    Lear's Gentleman

  • Arinzé Kene
    Lieutenant

  • Sharon Wattis
    1st Maid