Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water, Spencer) is magnificent in the rousing ‘stranger-than-fiction’ dramedy from two-time Academy Award nominated director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, The Queen, Philomena).
In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics.
THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's history.
"One of Hawkins’ greatest roles... a historical detective story that carries the kick of a true-life Da Vinci Code."
- VARIETY
"This is the essence of Frears... one lovely wisp of a movie... a spiritual successor to his smash hit Philomena."
- VANITY FAIR
"Sally Hawkins is Oscar-worthy."
- EVENING STANDARD
"Wonderfully compelling and delightfully charming... Sally Hawkins at her very best."
- HEAT
"Hugely enjoyable... a fantastic story, brilliantly told."
- THE DAILY MAIL
Monday 26th December
108 min
M
Steve Coogan, Sally Hawkins, James Fleet, Harry Lloyd, Sinead MacInnes
Stephen Frears
Drama
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