Monday, July 17, 2006
NUTS TO SOUP
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
The Madness of King George (1995)I don't think that I saw the film but I did see the play; both with the late Nigel Hawthorne as the King.
Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett, and our favorite little man, Ian Holm, fill out the bill.
It is a wonderful play with many rich characters in addition to the King himself.
The politics and machinations around the King come in for a bounteous run through along with the incompetencies of the doctors and the highly dysfunctional family stuff.
Mirren and Hawthorne are a wonderful old husband and wife couple off the royal stage.
It is a lot of fun and not too upsetting. A great play and a good movie.
There are some great scenes of the King's recovery; one involving soup. I had to tell you that to rationalize the title of the entry.
The problem with taking a theater piece out and blowing it up is avoided here. The show does not overwhelm the drama here. There is a good balance.
A definite 5 out of Netflix5.
