The King's Speech

"...Because I Have a Voice!"

Warning: If you want action, explosions, and blood... this isn't the movie for you.
If you want a great, must-see movie... You know what to do.

"The King's Speech" - This movie was an excellently made character-drama. It follows "Bertie"... the Duke of York, son of King George V. He has a bad stutter. As Radio emerges, he has the need to give speeches in public. He has tried many speech-coaches but nothing works. That is, until he meets Lionel Logue. It follows his progression from Duke to King.

Cast: Collin Firth (Bertie), Geoffrey Rush (Logue), Guy Pearce (Edward, Bertie's Brother), Helena Bonham Carter (Elizabeth, Bertie's Wife), Michael Gambon (King George V), Timothy Spall (Winston Churchill)... Quite a high-class cast.

The story is quite endearing. You really get to know Bertie/King George VI. You feel his pain, you understand what it's like to stutter. In a few scenes, you might actually cry.
In other scenes, you will laugh. Sometimes the humor is subtle and witty, other times it's a little more obvious.

MPAA Rating: "R" For Language. There are 17 F-words and a few other S's, D's, and perhaps a few A's. An interesting fact about this, in England it was originally going to be rated at Age 15 due to the language, but the makers fought it down to an Age 12 because the language isn't used to be vulgar, offensive, or sexual. It is merely the word itself with little context... or to quote IMDB.COM, "Contains strong language in a speech therapy context".

(For those of you not familiar with those actors, Here's a cheat-sheet...
Geoffrey Rush plays Captain Barbosa in Pirates

HBC plays Bellatrix LeStrange in Harry Potter
Michael Gambon plays Dumbledore (the second incarnation) in Harry Potter
Timothy Spall plays Wormtail in Harry Potter.
that's right... A HP Reunion!)