I'll be interested to see The King's Speech (out in a couple of weeks), which tells the story of King George VI (father of the current Queen Elizabeth) and his battles with stuttering.Colin Firth plays George, Helena Bonham Carter plays his wife (the Queen mum) and Geoffrey Rush plays his Australian speech therapist.
It's always very interesting for me to see any story of a stutterer, and also interesting to see how stuttering gets portrayed. It's not something you see in movies that often. I liked A Fish Called Wanda, and Micheal Palin played a stutterer exceedingly well (apparently his father had a severe stutter), but as a stutterer that is one painful movie to watch!
Maybe this one will be a little more inspiring (although the trailer looks a little cheesy to me).
We'll see.
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Have you seen it yet Ben? I'd be interested to know what you thought.
Sorry, forgot t reply to this, Al. Haven't seen it yet, but hopefully on Wednesday. Heard only good things about it.
Benny, just saw it tonight. Thought of you. I think you'll like it.
Cool- seeing it tonight, George:)
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