King's Speech, The
Terrific acting highlights this compelling, fascinating, inspirational, factually based, star-peppered (Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, and Claire Bloom) film in which King George "Bertie" VI (Colin Firth), who assumed the throne after his brother Edward VIII (Guy Pearce) abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Eve Best), desperately tries to overcome a debilitating stuttering speech impediment with the support of his wife (Helen Bonham Carter) and controversial, unconventional, no-nonsense Australian elocutionist and speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) who used unorthodox methods to help the monarch gain self-confidence and to control his stammer that allowed him to successfully deliver many wartime speeches to his people during the 1930s.
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