King Lear

Name: King Lear
Director: Trevor Nunn
Released: 2008
Duration: 150 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Ian McKellen, William Gaunt, Philip Winchester, Ben Meyjes, Frances Barber

2008 · 150 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 690 VOTES · DIR. Trevor Nunn

Overview

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Dialogue Timeline — 2,192 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:15 I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

00:08:31 For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, from whom we do exist, and cease to be

00:15:17 Gods, gods! 'Tis strange that from their cold'st neglect

00:21:30 To his father, who so tenderly and entirely loves him.

00:28:14 - What's that? - Authority.

00:34:10 Hey!

00:41:48 I am ashamed that thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.

00:47:45 So, farewell.

00:53:50 What is the matter?

01:00:38 who, with roaring voices

01:07:26 looked black upon me, struck me with her looks.

01:14:10 What they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth.

01:21:11 Alack, bare-headed! Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel.

01:27:54 Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind...

01:34:20 You are o' the commission. Sit you too.

01:42:39 what letters had you late from France?

01:50:04 - Dost thou know Dover? - Ay, master.

01:57:09 I'll love thee...

02:04:29 - Pass. - I know that voice.

02:11:43 - Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward? - Most sure and certain.

02:20:02 but I am doubtful, and I am mainly ignorant of what place this is.

02:29:00 Give me thy hand, come on!

02:37:15 Your name, your quality, and why you answer this present summons?

02:46:11 If that her breaths do mist or stain the stone

Cast & Characters

Ian McKellen King Lear William Gaunt Earl of Gloucester Philip Winchester Edmund Ben Meyjes Edgar Frances Barber Goneril Monica Dolan Regan Romola Garai Cordelia Sylvester McCoy Lear's Fool Jonathan Hyde Earl of Kent Guy Williams Duke of Cornwall

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed2,192

Dialogue density14.6 lines / min

First line00:01:15

Final line02:46:11

Production Record

DirectorTrevor Nunn

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes690