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King Lear
2018Age guide: 18+
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
★ 6/10 · 110 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Anthony HopkinsLear
Emma ThompsonGoneril
Emily WatsonRegan
Jim BroadbentEarl of Gloucester
Florence PughCordelia
Jim CarterEarl of Kent
Andrew ScottEdgar
John MacmillanEdmund
Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers
Stephen Campbell: A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance > The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they… Read full review