King Lear
2018 Drama | Other
60%
Richard Eyre's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, starring Anthony Hopkins as the ageing monarch who decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, only to turn against the youngest and banish her when she refuses to flatter his ego. The remaining sisters are corrupted by their newfound power and drive him into the wastelands, at a terrible cost to his sanity, while the land is plunged into chaos and civil war. With Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent, Andrew Scott and Florence Pugh