Churchill (2017)

Ninety-six hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.

Director:

Jonathan Teplitzky

Writer:

Alex von Tunzelmann

Stars:

Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery

1 win.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Brian Cox	...	Winston Churchill
Miranda Richardson	...	Clemmie Churchill
John Slattery	...	Dwight Eisenhower
Julian Wadham	...	General Montgomery
Richard Durden	...	Jan Smuts
Ella Purnell	...	Helen Garrett
Danny Webb	...	Field Marshal Alan Brooke
Jonathan Aris	...	Leigh Mallory
George Anton	...	Admiral Ramsay
Steven Cree	...	Group Captain Stagg
James Purefoy	...	King George VI
Peter Ormond	...	Briggs
Angela Costello	...	Kay Summersby
Kevin Findlay	...	Fanshawe
Miro Teplitzky	...	Adjutant Howard

Storyline

June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. Behind the iconic figure and rousing speeches: a man who has faced political ridicule, military failure and a speech impediment. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality - fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with fulfilling historical greatness: his destiny. Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, Churchill is a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler's Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he'll be remembered as an architect of carnage. Political opponents sharpen their knives. General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery are increasingly frustrated by Churchill's attempts to stop...

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Plot Keywords:

year 1944 | based on true story | british politics | invasion | prime minister | 

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Taglines:

No Lies. Just Leadership.

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for thematic elements, brief war images, historical smoking throughout, and some language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Olivier Award winning lead actor Brian Cox learned the entire script as a single piece, rather than memorizing scene by scene.

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Goofs

During the first meeting with Eisenhower, the US flag flying over the grounds has the current 50-star pattern. In 1944, Alaska and Hawai'i were not yet states and the US flag had 48 stars.

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Quotes

Winston Churchill: I am choosing between trials and tribulations. Do stop adding to them.

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Connections

Featured in Churchill: Behind the Scenes Featurette (2017)

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Soundtracks

The Future
Written by Lorne Balfe
Courtesy of 14th Street Music, LLC
Under license from Zimbalko Music

User Reviews

Not a Churchillian Portrayal.

Yet another film where they feel the audience is too stupid to have any knowledge of the subject, so must dumb it all down into patronising pap.

Not happy with insulting us already, they then take historical facts and rewrite them totally for no other reason than they can. Then slip in the old adage "Based On A True Story" which like so many films, claiming to be 'Based on a true story' is actually code for a load of B.S. pretending to be factual.

Churchill was one of the greatest, complex and most flawed characters of recent history.

Instead of going with truth (and therefore being much much more interesting) they went for a Hollywood horrible caricature full of errors and downright lies.

I'm not surprised the writer has no other credits shown on IMDb. This is atrocious pap. Insulting to a great man, who we were privileged for him to give 'the lions roar' for us, in the face of evil.

People watch films like this and others e.g. 'The Imitation Game' and think they are portraying factual history. They leave the theatre feeling they have learned something, instead it varies from gross distortion of the truth to out and out lie.

The irony is, the true story is so much more interesting. But it means the writers would have to put a lot of work in portraying it. Hence it's more convenient to serve us this pap and pass it off as 'historical'.

the reviews saying this is an 'Insight into Churchill' etc, shows real ignorance and how Hollywood rewrites history.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 June 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Churchill

Filming Locations:

George Street, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$6,400,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$408,891, 4 June 2017

Gross USA:

$1,281,258

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,724,365

Company Credits

Production Co:

Salon Pictures, Tempo Productions Limited, Head Gear Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1