Just for fun this weekend go see the movie The King's Speech! You'll love it!

A thoroughly satisfying movie and it shows just what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it too.

hope you see it :)

 I agree. One of the best movies I have seen in years. It was about character and relationships and so well done. 

 I totally agree.  I loved it so much that I saw it twice!  Best movie of the year for me and I think I've seen them all.

I was just thinking that I wish I could have the experience of seeing it again for the first time!  Lee, I'm with you...I just may have to see it a second time as well. 

I want to drag hubby off to see it too. One of the guys at work, I totally respect, told me it was great film. Thanks for the recommendation.

--gina

I loved it, as I tend to feel about anything with Mr. Firth.  It was great to see Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother, too - she's so often in those quirky roles, and here she got to show her chops doing something subtle and brilliant.  And Geoffrey Rush is consistently brilliant.  

I loved it!  (I also loved True Grit.) 

I know what you mean about Helena Bonham Carter.  She has redeemed herself in my eyes.  Her working and marrital partnership with Tim Burton was beginning to pigeonhole her into as you say, quirky roles, but I loved her in this movie!  She was brilliant.

Have you seen Christian Bale in The Fighter?  Wow wow wow

I loved Tru Grit until I nodded off in the theater :(    I have a little thing for Jeff Bridges

Finally some decent movies!  hurray

I'm out of the loop...can someone tell me what/who this movie is about???  True story???

Rolling Stone
By Peter Travers November 24, 2010

 

It could have been a bunch of pip-pip, stiff-upper-lip Brit blather about a stuttering king who learns to stop worrying and love the microphone. Instead, The King's Speech — a crowning achievement powered by a dream cast — digs vibrant human drama out of the dry dust of history. King George VI (Colin Firth) — father of the present Queen Elizabeth — found his own Dr. Strangelove in Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), a wildly eccentric Australian speech therapist who made it possible for the stammering monarch to go on radio in 1939 and rally his subjects to support the declaration of war on Hitler's Germany.

Peter Travers reviews The King's Speech in his weekly video series, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."

The King's Speech plays out on the battlefield of words, not action. Writer David Seidler (doing keenly insightful work partly owing to his own bouts with a stammer) had conceived the story first as a play. Before you can think the words "static" and "confining," be advised that director Tom Hooper, garlanded with Emmy dust for John Adams, Elizabeth I, Longford and Prime Suspect, breathes fresh, urgent life into every frame of this powerhouse. Hooper, 37, is a prodigious talent. The emotion this film produces is staggering.

Hooper begins in 1925, as the king, then merely Prince Albert, is trying to speak at the British Empire Exhibition. The words stick in his throat, and his silences between syllables fill the stadium. The prince's embarrassment is acute, and deeply felt by his compassionate wife, Elizabeth (a superb Helena Bonham Carter creates miracles with every subtle look and gesture), who goads him to visit Logue. His Highness goes into heavy snob mode in the presence of this commoner, who demands that they use first names. When Lionel first calls Albert "Bertie," Firth's poleaxed reaction is priceless. Lionel treats speech lessons like therapy sessions, pushing for details about life in the royal family. What he gets is a portrait of a blowhard father, George V (Michael Gambon), and a taunting brother, Edward VIII (Guy Pearce is absolutely stellar), *****duces the proud, vulnerable Albert to rubble by committing the one unforgivable sin: Edward abdicates the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Eve Best), leaving Bertie to succeed him. Suddenly, the man who would not be king most assuredly is.

Wow...sounds like a MUST SEE...thanks for sharing the article!