![]() Willis (Ian Holm), a doctor of the mind with a reputation for curing dementia. At last, when all appears lost, Prime Minister Pitt (Julian Wadham), aided by Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) her Mistress of the Robes, Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe) and Greville (Rupert Graves), one of the king's aides sends for Dr. Ministers, retainers, and others at court begin to scheme how to get the most out of the king's indisposition. His eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) is eager to see his father declared mad so he can take over as regent. The doctors - mostly a bunch of jumped-up quacks - do nothing for him. Bothered by increasingly painful abdominal pains, George (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to act irrationally and belligerently. Opening in 1788, more than five years after England lost her North American colonies, The Madness of King George relates a dark episode in the king's reign. ![]() The musical selections (made by George Fenton) are so perfectly and expertly interwoven into the film that one might easily assume the score had been specifically written for Nicholas Hytner's production. ![]() With the clear strains of Handel's "Water Music" and "Zadok the Priest" in the background, The Madness of King George ascends to a level that it might never have attained using a modern composer. ![]() If the score of Immortal Beloved is remarkable, that of The Madness of King George is no less so. ![]()
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