The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech has received various awards and nominations, including twelve Academy Award nominations (the highest number of nominations in 2011), seven Golden Globe nominations, fourteen BAFTA nominations and wins from various critics’ circles.  –Wikipedia I was expecting The King’s Speech to be a good movie, and I am often disappointed by movies I think will be good.  Not this time.  The King’s Speech was great.  It’s an almost literal fairy tale of a Price who becomes a King through no real desire or action of his own.  First his father, played by Sir Michael-Dumbledore-Gambon, goes a bit mad and…

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