An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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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
Director
Richard Eyre
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Playground Entertainment, Sonia Friedman Productions, BBC, Amazon Studios, Lemaise Pictures
Stephen Campbell
April 18, 2019
**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_** > _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Ang...
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