The King's Speech [Blu-ray] Reviews

The King’s Speech is one of those oddball films that looks like one thing, but turns out to be another. It has all the trappings of a prestige historical drama, the kind of big screen Masterpiece Theater series that routinely leaves contemporary audiences cold (The Young Victoria, anyone?). But The King’s Speech did spectacular box office, because viewers found something else: a classic buddy film (a “bromance”, as star Colin Firth called it) that was both moving and funny. This wasn’t a history lesson; it was a story about interesting people, one of whom happened to be royalty

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