The King's Speech Review: Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscar Recipient 2011

In a sentence: I was riveted by The King's Speech.
For the actors: Colin Firth does an amazing job showing the embedded fear, anger, hope, and humanity of a royal named Bertie, who shall become King George the VI, the king that saw England through World War II, who possesses a serious stammer. Helena Bonham Carter breaks out of her tendency to play "weird" roles and does a great job playing Bertie's wife and future queen in a very royally dry fashion. Geoffrey Rush plays an amusingly lovable, eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue, who recognizes the impediment as rooted psychologically.
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