The Duke (2020)

Directed by

Roger Michell

Genre

comedy film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 370 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly man steals a famous painting from a London museum to protest government policies. He is later caught and put on trial.

warmquirkygentleunderstatedhumorouswhimsicalfeel-goodmildly tense

What happens

The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Kempton Bunton. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Matthew Goode. It was Michell's penultimate film before his death on 22 September 2021. The film was released in cinemas in the UK on 25 February 2022 to generally good reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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