Okay, this is a few days late, but as I've said, I'm just recently back. Earning a standing ovation at the Telluride Film Festival and the People's Choice Award (which previously went to such eventual awards favorites as "Whale Rider", "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Precious") at the Toronto, the film is the story of King George VI (Colin Firth), who was forced to assume the throne when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated the crown to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Unfortunately, George had a terminal stutter, which led to his wife Elizabeth (played here by Helena Bonham Carter) to bring in Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech pathologist with Unorthodox Methods (tm), who rid the king of his speech impediment in time for him to make the speech of the title, announcing Britain's entry into World War II. Maybe I'm biased by the heavy advance praise, but the trailer's got me pretty excited; Rush and Firth both seem in top form, as does Helena Bonham Carter, who's always been a quality actress but I will confess I had no idea was an Oscar nominee already. (Also, in what's quite possibly the weirdest Harry Potter reunion ever, we get a glimpse of Timothy "Wormtail" Spall as Winston Churchill.) Check it out!
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