The story
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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Anthony HopkinsLear
Emma ThompsonGoneril
Emily WatsonRegan
Jim BroadbentEarl of Gloucester
Florence PughCordelia
Jim CarterEarl of Kent
Andrew ScottEdgar
John MacmillanEdmund
Tobias MenziesDuke of Cornwall
Anthony CalfDuke of Albany
Karl JohnsonFool
Christopher EcclestonOswaldExplore the crew
- Writer
- Richard Eyre
- Director
- Richard Eyre
- Producer
- Noëlette Buckley
- Director of Photography
- Ben Smithard
- Editor
- Dan Farrell
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen Warbeck