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King Lear (1983) Full Movie

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King Lear (1983)

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

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Mark T 05 Mar 2010

There are some top actors in this and many of them deliver fine performances but the whole thing is kind of brought down for me by the rather theatrical staging and cheap-looking production values. Plus the whole country seems to be permanently shrouded in mist. The director really didn't get the most out of the film medium and so some great performances end up being a bit muted and the whole thing a little slow and dull - a problem of many Shakespearean adaptions.

Morgan H 17 Jul 2012

The pacing of this cheaply made film is glacial, but the emotion of the story and Olivier's Lear pull it through.

Marilee A 14 Jun 2011

Lear as it should be Performed, by Sir Laurence Olivier

Christopher A 28 Aug 2007

Greatest play ever, and this version is spectacular.

Carla V 21 Apr 2010

This was my first real exposure to both Olivier and Shakespeare. I promptly decided that I loved both. I was about 15. I didn't know much about anything, but I knew excellence when I saw it.