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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   322 votes
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Director:
Michael Elliott
Writer:
William Shakespeare (play)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 January 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Thou art a soul in bliss more

Cast

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Additional Details

Runtime:
158 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:G

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Trivia:
The last specifically made-for-television production of a Shakespeare play (to date) to have its American TV premiere on commercial network television, an occurrence that was much more common in the 1950's, '60's, and '70s. more
Quotes:
Kent: Fellow, I know thee.
Oswald: What dost thou know me for?
Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service...
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Version of King Lear (2008) (TV) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Thou art a soul in bliss, 8 May 1999
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Author: Sirona from Boston, MA, USA

The whole production was beclouded with grayness, as suits the theme of seeing/sight, yet the acting was elegiac. Diana Rigg and Dorothy Tutin were as seeming kindly as they were brutal. Robert Lindsay's Edmund was as poisonous as he was seemingly loving and loyal. But what I take away most specially was Olivier, as Lear, lifting a lock of his dead Cordelia's hair in his bowed hands to his face, taking a breath, a last scent. I cried. It was a most elegant summary of a parent's loss.

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