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The Lost King  2022
Director:  Stephen Frears
Producer:
  Steve Coogan, Christine Langan and Dan Winch
Art Director:
  Jean Kerr
Editor:
  Pia Di Ciaula
Music:
  Alexandra Desplat
Screenplay:
  Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Director of Photography:
  Zac Nicholson
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Cast:
spacer1 Sally Hawkins
spacer1 Steve Coogan
spacer1 Harry Lloyd
spacer1 Mark Addy
spacer1 James Fleet
spacer1 Sinead MacInnes
spacer1 John-Paul Hurley
spacer1 Jessica Hardwick
spacer1 Phobe Pryce
spacer1 James Rottger
spacer1 Alasdair Hankinson
spacer1 Glenna Morrison
spacer1 Sally Hawkins spacer1 Steve Coogan spacer1 Harry Lloyd
spacer1 Mark Addy spacer1 James Fleet spacer1 Sinead MacInnes
spacer1 John-Paul Hurley spacer1 Jessica Hardwick spacer1 Phobe Pryce
spacer1 James Rottger spacer1 Alasdair Hankinson spacer1 Glenna Morrison
spacer1 Sally Hawkins spacer1 Steve Coogan
spacer1 Harry Lloyd spacer1 Mark Addy
spacer1 James Fleet spacer1 Sinead MacInnes
spacer1 John-Paul Hurley spacer1 Jessica Hardwick
spacer1 Phobe Pryce spacer1 James Rottger
spacer1 Alasdair Hankinson spacer1 Glenna Morrison

Synopsis:
Langley (Sally Hawkins) is a writer who finds herself suffering a midlife malaise after a divorce and some health challenges. She happens upon the Richard III Society, a group of amateur historians bent on rehabilitating the damaged reputation of Richard, and soon becomes obsessed with finding his long-lost remains. Weathering derision from historians and concern from her family (the exception being her supportive but confused ex-husband John, played by Steve Coogan), our amateur sleuth does prevail. But her discovery of Richard’s true fate is not the last chapter in this fascinating story. The film’s irony-filled third act, when bureaucrats attempt to do to Philippa something akin to what Henry Tudor did to Richard, is an impassioned addendum to this true-life story.

Screenwriters Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena, 2013) partner with Stephen Frears to create the perfect narrative tension between the past and the present. Through her sensitive and spirited portrayal of Philippa, Hawkins shows us a woman who fights ferociously to redeem Richard, all the while seemingly powerless to change others’ misunderstanding of her. In mending history’s fractured perception of Richard III, Philippa mends herself.

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