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Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.
Keywords: 1930s, abdication, apostrophe-in-title, archbishop-of-canterbury, australian, biplane, britain, british-royal-family, bromance, brother-brother-relationship
It takes leadership to confront a nation's fear. It takes friendship to conquer your own.
When God couldn't save The King, The Queen turned to someone who could.
When his nation needed a leader, when the people needed a voice, an ordinary man would help him find the courage.
Find Your Voice.
The Nation Awaits...
Lionel Logue: What was your earliest memory?::King George VI: I'm not... -here to discuss... -personal matters.::Lionel Logue: Why are you here then?::King George VI: Because I bloody well stammer!
Lionel Logue: Do you know any jokes?::King George VI: ...Timing isn't my strong suit.
King George VI: [Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!::Lionel Logue: Why not? It's a chair.::King George VI: No, that. It is not a chair. T-that... that is Saint Edward's chair.::Lionel Logue: People have carved their names on it.::King George VI: [Simultaneously] That... chair... is the seat on which every king and queen has... That is the Stone of Scone you ah-are trivializing everything. You trivialize...::Lionel Logue: [Simultaneously] It's held in place by a large rock. I don't care about how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair.::King George VI: Listen to me. *Listen to me!*::Lionel Logue: Listen to you? By what right?::King George VI: By divine right if you must, I am your king.::Lionel Logue: No you're not, you told me so yourself. You didn't want it. Why should I waste my time listening?::King George VI: Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice!::Lionel Logue: [pauses] Yes, you do.::[Longer pause]::Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you're the bravest man I know.
[watching a clip of Hitler speaking]::Lilibet: What's he saying?::King George VI: I don't know but... he seems to be saying it rather well.
King George VI: Every monarch in history has succeeded someone who is dead. Or just about to be. My predecessor's not only alive, but very much so. Bloody mess. Can't even give them a Christmas speech.::Lionel Logue: Like your dad used to do.::King George VI: Precisely.::Lionel Logue: He's not here anymore.::King George VI: Yes he is: he's on that shilling I gave you.::Lionel Logue: Easy enough to give away. You don't have to carry him around in your pocket. Or your brother. You don't need to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five.
King George VI: ...a sieve of thisted siffles!
Stanley Baldwin: Sir, I have asked to see you today in order to tender my resignation as Prime Minister.::King George VI: I'm so sorry to hear that... Mr Baldwin.::Stanley Baldwin: Neville Chamberlain will take my place as Prime Minister. It's a matter of principle. I was mistaken. I have found it impossible to believe that there is any man in the world so lacking in moral feeling as Hitler. And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war. Churchill was right all along. This was always Hitler's intention. I'm only very sorry to leave you at this great time of crisis.::Stanley Baldwin: [pauses]::Stanley Baldwin: I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.
Queen Elizabeth: [Using the name "Mrs. Johnson"] My husband's work involves a great deal of public speaking.::Lionel Logue: Then he should change jobs.::Queen Elizabeth: He can't.::Lionel Logue: What is he, an indentured servant?::Queen Elizabeth: Something like that.
Myrtle Logue: Will their Majesties be staying for dinner? [Logue and Bertie look panic-stricken. Elizabeth comes to the rescue]::Queen Elizabeth: We would love to, such a treat, but alas... a previous engagement. What a pity.
Lionel Logue: [as George "Berty" is lighting up a cigarette] Please don't do that.::King George VI: I'm sorry?::Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.::King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.::Lionel Logue: They're idiots.::King George VI: They've all been knighted.::Lionel Logue: [sarcastic] Makes it official then.
A relentless leader is the greatest weapon of war.
Plot
At a July 4 barbecue, gramps tells the kids the story of Michael Malone, a documentary filmmaker and Michael Moore look-alike who hates America and wants to abolish July 4th. He refuses to celebrate with his nephew Josh, who's shipping out soon to the Middle East. That night, Michel has a vision of his hero, JFK, who predicts that three ghosts will visit Michael. Sure enough, General Patton, George Washington, and country music star Trace Adkins visit Michael show him the fruits of patriotism, just wars, and pacifism. Meanwhile, Arab terrorists want Malone to help them with a propaganda film. Is he the next Leni Riefenstahl or will he see the light?
Keywords: absurdism, afghanistan, ak-47, american-flag, anti-americanism, anvil, arab-stereotype, award, award-ceremony, banjo
Laugh like your country depends on it.
WARNING! This movie may be offensive to children, young people, old people, in-the-middle people, some people on the right, all people on the left, terrorists, pacifists, war-mongers, fish mongers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics (though you'd have to prove it to them), the ACLU, liberals, conservatives, neo-cons, ex-cons, future cons, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarian, people of color, people of no color, English speakers, English-as-a-second language speakers, non-speakers, men, women, more women, & Ivy League professors. Native Americans should be okay.
Michael Malone: Who are these people?::General George S. Patton: They're not people, they're the ACLU!
Josh: Oh, grandpa fell asleep again.::Timm: No, he's dead.
Timm: [upon Michael Malone arriving] Oh, look, it's Uncle Asshole.
Michael Malone: [John F. Kennedy, George S. Patton and Bill O'Reilly slap Michael Malone]::[to Bill O'Reilly]::Michael Malone: Hey, wait a minute, you're not a ghost!::Bill O'Reilly: I know! I just enjoy slapping you.
Mohammed: It is getting harder and harder to find suicide bombers. And all the really good ones are gone.
Bacon Stains Malone: Don't you worry Mas'sa Malone we got dem bacon stains out of the upholstry, just like you asked. Take over Lebron, I'll do the limo.
Michael Malone: Look can you make them stop singing.::Rastus Malone: Hey, Mas'sa don't wanna hear that slave shit, kick something in the fo fo.
Michael Malone: [misunderstanding his appearance] I always stood up for gay rights.::Angel of Death: I am the angel of freakin' death, you turdhead.
Michael Malone: I love America. That's why it needs to be destroyed. So that it can come to it's senses.
George Mulrooney: [Accepting an award for a film about McCarthyism] Thank you. I dedicate this award to all the courageous filmmakers who take on tough issues like, well, McCarthyism, even though it no longer exists. Or like slavery or Nazism, even though they ended too. But you know, evil exists today like, uh, well, Islamic terrorism, but like I'm gonna make *that* movie, right? Like I wanna get beheaded! [laughs and mimics being beheaded]
Plot
This sweeping mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. The film chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, to Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston's Mayor. The first night focuses on the marriage's troubled years and Rose's strength in developing a real family. The second night covered the years of 1928 - 1940 and Jospeh's years as working as a movie producer and then an ambassador. The final night follows the Kennedy's tragedies during World War II and follows the post war years political successes of John Kennedy.
Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title, tv-mini-series
Plot
A group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."
Keywords: 1870s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 19th-century, 20th-century, abused-child, actor-director-writer, adulterer, adultery
Radio's Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screen's most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said he'd never make
365 days in the making - and every minute of it an exciting NEW thrill for you !
It's Terrific!
Everybody's talking about it!
The classic story of power and the press.
I hate him! I love him! He's a scoundrel! He's a saint! He's crazy! He's a genius!
Some called him a hero. Others called him a heel...
Thompson: Sentimental fellow, aren't you?::Raymond: Hmmm... yes and no.
[first lines]::Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud...
Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.::Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.
Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.::Thatcher: Don't you think you are?::Charles Foster Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.::Thatcher: What would you like to have been?::Charles Foster Kane: Everything you hate.
Charles Foster Kane: Hello Jedediah.::Leland: Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking...::Charles Foster Kane: Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired.
Charles Foster Kane: I always gagged on the silver spoon.
[Quoting from Kane's letter]::Walter Parks Thatcher: I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
Emily: Really Charles, people will think-...::Charles Foster Kane: - -what I tell them to think.
Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.
After working in business and local government and after a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father and older half-brother in becoming a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49. He declined a junior ministerial position, remaining a backbencher until 1922. He was rapidly promoted in 1923 to Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a short Labour-led government, he returned as Minister of Health, introducing a range of reform measures from 1924 to 1929. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the National Government in 1931.
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also controversial. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy which emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
Cook was born at his parents' house "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward (Alec) Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.
John Marwood Cleese (/ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, The Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
In the mid 1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films as R/Q, two Harry Potter films and three Shrek films.
With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay he co-founded Video Arts, a production company making entertaining training films.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.