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

Anthony Hopkins
as Lear

Emma Thompson
as Goneril

Emily Watson
as Regan

Jim Broadbent
as Earl of Gloucester

Florence Pugh
as Cordelia

Jim Carter
as Earl of Kent

Andrew Scott
as Edgar

John Macmillan
as Edmund

Tobias Menzies
as Duke of Cornwall

Anthony Calf
as Duke of Albany
Stephen Campbell
**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_** > _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear:...