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Title: A United Kingdom (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| David Oyelowo | ... | Seretse Khama | |
| Rosamund Pike | ... | Ruth Williams | |
| Tom Felton | ... | Rufus Lancaster | |
| Jack Davenport | ... | Sir Alistair Canning | |
| Laura Carmichael | ... | Muriel Williams | |
| Terry Pheto | ... | Naledi Khama | |
| Jessica Oyelowo | ... | Lady Lilly Canning | |
| Vusi Kunene | ... | Tshekedi Khama | |
| Nicholas Lyndhurst | ... | George Williams | |
| Arnold Oceng | ... | Charles | |
| Anastasia Hille | ... | Dot Williams | |
| Charlotte Hope | ... | Olivia Lancaster | |
| Theo Landey | ... | Michael Nash | |
| Abena Ayivor | ... | Ella Khama | |
| Jack Lowden | ... | Tony Benn | |
In the late 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland is studying law in Britain in preparation for his eventual ascension to the throne. There, the dashing prince falls in love with a white British clerk, Ruth Williams, and they plan to marry. While they suspect that his uncle, the Regent, would disapprove, nothing prepares them for the diplomatic firestorm and domestic political tumult their defiant love would spark. Now facing a citizenry leery of a white Briton as their Queen, the international opposition is even more unyielding from the British holding their land as a protectorate and fearful of South Africa's racist backlash to this affront to their apartheid domination. Against all odds, King Khama and Ruth must struggle to maintain their love and help their people in a land that would become the Republic of Botswana. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
This is an outstanding film about a story I knew nothing about. However, my review is more a review of IMDb and its voting system.
I note that this film has, at the time of writing twenty-two 1 star reviews. Maybe these are genuine but I suspect they are not. For one thing the film has not had many screenings so have as many as twenty-two different people really hated it that much?
Secondly, 1 star films do not get selected for the Toronto Film Festival or for the opening night film for the London Film Festival. The programmers and selectors of these highly regarded festivals are at the top of their game and each year they are offered several thousand films. None of them are going to risk their hard fought reputations on selecting a bad 1-star film.
My feeling is that these 22 people are members of the KKK who hate black people or else they are people who are jealous of the those involved in the production.
Either way IMDb needs to have an algorithm that can deduce whether these people are genuine, or not. Maybe they are and the press reviews so far, which rave about the film, are wrong, but maybe these people are racist bitter bigots who hate the success of others because they themselves are failures and they have nothing better to do in their small sad lives but set up false IMDb accounts and vent their spleen in the only way they can.
Time as they say will tell.