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Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech, starring Tony Award and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth, has won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
The period drama, written by David Seidler, follows the young King George VI — the father of the current Queen Elizabeth II — as he reluctantly assumes the throne after his brother Edward abdicates. Cursed with a nervous stammer, the unprepared monarch turns to an unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
The film also stars Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, and Timothy Spall. It will be distributed later this year.
