The Queen (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Cromwell, Helen Mirren & Michael Sheen | |
Performer: | Roger Allam, Helen McCrory, Sylvia Syms & Alex Jennings | |
Directed by | Stephen Frears | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Morgan | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Andy Harries, Tracey Seaward & Christine Langan | |
Director of Photography: | Affonso Beato |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Entertainment Reviews:
How heavy that crown and how very lightly Helen Mirren wears it as queen. With Mr. Frear's gentle guidance, she delivers a performance remarkable in its art and lack of sentimentalism.
New York Times
Ranked #5 in Film Comment's 20 Best Films Of 2006.
Film Comment
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Films Of The Year -- Mirren deserves each and every honor bestowed upon her...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/6 --
Both [Michael Sheen and Helen Mirren] understand the prickly push-and-pull that defines the fight -- the Gray Monarch v. the Great Modernizer -- and give quiet gravitas to the polite but firm standoffs.
Full Review
Time Out
4 stars out of 5 -- Rightly acclaimed for Helen Mirren's extraordinarily persuasive lead....This is Stephen Frears' best film yet.
Uncut
Rating: 8/10 --
The Queen will knock your socks off.
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ReelzChannel.com
3.5 stars out of 4 -- THE QUEEN is one of the best and liveliest movies of the year -- funny and touching in ways you can't predict.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Helen Mirren delivers a royally stirring performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears's fictional romp, THE QUEEN. The year is 1997, and Great Britain has a newly elected prime minister, the youthful, optimistic Tony Blair (Michael Sheen). In Buckingham Palace, the Queen doesn't appear to be fazed by Blair's arrival. Then again, she doesn't appear to be fazed by anything. But when Diana--her son's ex-wife and the mother of her grandchildren--is killed in a tragic car accident, her authority is tested as never before. While the Queen Mother (Sylvia Syms) and Prince Philip (James Cromwell) agree with her decision to remain at their holiday estate in Balmoral and not publicly acknowledge the tragedy, Tony Blair feels differently. Unfortunately, so do the English people. Making matters worse is the out-of-control media, which has begun to castigate the queen for her silence. In order to retain her grip on the country that she has served for so many years, she must swallow her pride and let the world know that she does, in fact, care.
With THE QUEEN, the consistently superior Frears (DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, DANGEROUS LIAISONS) strikes once again. Peter Morgan's devilishly clever script provides the foundation, but the expert performances are what make the film such an exhilarating ride. What begins as a humorous critique of the stuffy royal family becomes an unexpectedly sympathetic portrait of a woman who carries the weight of a nation on her shoulders.
This film was chosen to be the opening night selection of the 44th New York Film Festival organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
With THE QUEEN, the consistently superior Frears (DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, DANGEROUS LIAISONS) strikes once again. Peter Morgan's devilishly clever script provides the foundation, but the expert performances are what make the film such an exhilarating ride. What begins as a humorous critique of the stuffy royal family becomes an unexpectedly sympathetic portrait of a woman who carries the weight of a nation on her shoulders.
This film was chosen to be the opening night selection of the 44th New York Film Festival organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.