The Lion in Winter
- TV Movie
- 2003
- 2h 47m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.4K
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King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 7 wins & 21 nominations total
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- TriviaPatrick Stewart previously played Henry's son, Richard the Lionheart, in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
- GoofsEleanor refers to syphilis in one of her speeches, an impossibility in 1183 England. Syphilis was not named such until 1530 by Hieronymus Fracastorius. Regardless of whether Europe even had the disease prior to 1200, it could not have been known by that name to the Queen.
- Quotes
John: He has a knife, a knife!
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Of course he has a knife! I have a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're all barbarians!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004)
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Excellent human view of history.
Remakes of successful films are notoriously difficult. It took courage to challenge the Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn film. It also took talent. Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close have that in abundance. The original is a classic, no doubt, but Stewart and Close made Henry II and Eleanor very real. In a larger sense, it's too easy to see distant history and the people who lived it as characters in a play, but this film made it clear that the people who lived in those distant time were like us; they dreamed, schemed, hoped, planned, laughed, hurt, made stupid decisions and wept. Henry and Eleanor might have had larger forces working on them than most of us do, but they were just people. Stewart and Close made them real. The Supporting cast was superb. I especially appreciated the portrayal of Richard. Our modern view of that strange tormented man and terrible king was well rendered by Andrew Howard. I would recommend this film over the original.
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- May 27, 2005
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