The "quack" who saved a king... Featuring a star-studded cast of Academy
AwardA. winners and nominees, The King's Speech won the 2010 Toronto
International Film Festival People's Choice Award and is generating plenty
of Oscar buzz. This official film tie-in is written by London Sunday Times
journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue--grandson of Lionel Logue, one of
the movie's central characters. It's the eve of World War II, and King
Edward VIII has abdicated the throne of England to marry the woman he loves.
Never has the nation needed a leader more. But the new monarch, George VI--
father of today's Queen Elizabeth II--is painfully shy and cursed with
a terrible stammer. How can he inspire confidence in his countrymen when
he cannot even speak to them? Help arrives in speech therapist Logue, who
not only is a commoner, but Australian to boot. Will he be able to give
King George his voice? The King's Speech tells an inspiring tale of triumph
over adversity and the unlikely friendship between a reluctant king and the
charismatic subject who saved the throne.
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