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The Lion in Winter: Directed by Anthony Harvey. With Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle. 1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice.
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The Lion in Winter: Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy. With Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrew Howard. King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
Summaries. King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor. King Henry II (Sir Patrick Stewart) keeps his wife, Eleanor ( Glenn Close) locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him.
The Lion in Winter, based on James Goldman's play about treachery in the family of King Henry II, is an intense, fierce, personal drama, directed with evident pleasure by Anthony Harvey. Cataloging the vicious wrangling for inheritance one Christmas holiday, the action is mostly contained within one day.
Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside.
On the loose in London, winters in Provence, impromptu trips to visit Richard anywhere he's killing people. All that for a signature. Henry II : My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at twenty-one, the ablest soldier of an able time.
Katharine Hepburn. Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968). Hepburn became the third performer to win consecutive awards, and the first to win three awards for lead roles. Anthony Harvey, the film's director, accepted the award on her behalf. 1969 Nominee Oscar.
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