Movie
King Lear
Overview
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Details
- Release date
- 2018-05-28
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Playground Entertainment, Sonia Friedman Productions, BBC, Amazon Studios, Lemaise Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anthony Hopkins as Lear
- Emma Thompson as Goneril
- Emily Watson as Regan
- Jim Broadbent as Earl of Gloucester
- Florence Pugh as Cordelia
- Jim Carter as Earl of Kent
- Andrew Scott as Edgar
- John Macmillan as Edmund
- Tobias Menzies as Duke of Cornwall
- Anthony Calf as Duke of Albany
- Karl Johnson as Fool
- Christopher Eccleston as Oswald
Crew
- Richard Eyre - Director
- Richard Eyre - Writer
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