If you follow movies at all, you surely know by now that
“The King’s Speech” received 12 Oscar nominations. They’re well deserved.
On one level, the film is a “bromance” of opposites.
Prince Albert (Colin Firth), father of Queen Elizabeth and soon to become George VI, King of
England, suffers from a debilitating stammer that court physicians haven’t been
able to cure. The future Queen Mum (Helena Bonham Carter) asks speech therapist
Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) to help. Logue is unorthodox, not the least because he’s from
Australia. In the end, he wins the future king’s trust and enables him discover
the power of his own voice.
