May 28, 2018
115 min
Full-HD

King Lear (2018)

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

Category

Drama TV Movie

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Playground Entertainment Sonia Friedman Productions BBC Amazon Studios Lemaise Pictures

Anthony Hopkins

Lear

Emma Thompson

Goneril

Emily Watson

Regan

Jim Broadbent

Earl of Gloucester

Florence Pugh

Cordelia

Jim Carter

Earl of Kent

Andrew Scott

Edgar

John Macmillan

Edmund

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