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You know, the movie in which Judi Dench as Queen Victoria develops a close platonic friendship — or maybe even a romance — with royal groundskeeper John Brown in the early years of her widowhood, in the 1860s.

Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

Darkest Hour is not the only success Focus Features has mined from fairly recent British history (given its comparatively much longer history than the U.S.) The company opened Stephen Frears» Victoria and Abdul, starring Dame Judi Dench as Queen Victoria, in late September.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes play Shakespeare and his love Viola in this witty look at the playwright's life, but it's supporting cast members like Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I who steal the show.

The film stars Academy Award winner Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and...

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Focus Features» Victoria & Abdul, also from the Toronto fest, stars Dame Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and is based on the true - life story of the monarch's unlikely friendship with an Indian attendant.

Not exact matches

Judi Dench stars as the Queen while Ali Fazal, an Indian - English actor who appeared in the American television miniseries Bollywood Hero, plays Abdul, and this first look trailer suggests the film will be full of wit, warmth, and wisdom.

Then there are Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool) as Oscar - winning actress Gloria Grahame; Carey Mulligan (Mudbound) as a reluctant farm wife relocated to Mississippi in the 1940s; Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul) as Queen Victoria, a role she played in 1998's Mrs. Brown, for which she was Oscar nominated; Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) as disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding; and Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) as Christine McPherson, self - nicknamed «Lady Bird,» who is coming of age in 2002 Sacramento.

Director Stephen Frears partners with Judi Dench again, who stars as Queen Victoria (she also starred in Frears» Philomena a few years back earning an Oscar nomination), with newcomer Ali Fazal playing Abdul.

If Fiennes and Paltrow's charming lead turns as, respectively, the Bard and Lady Viola, the woman who melts away his writer's block and inspires Romeo and Juliet, is the lifeblood of this film, then its vigorous body is the deliciously witty script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, full of great lines (most delivered by Judi Dench's Queen Elizabeth) and peppered with intelligent details (sly allusions to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night).

In «Victoria & Abdul,» her ninth project with director Stephen Frears, Judi Dench stars as Queen Victoria and Ali Fazal as the handsome Indian servant Abdul Karim, her late - in - life teacher and best friend.

Directed by Stephen Frears («The Queen»), this charming film relies on the considerable charms of Dame Judi Dench as aged and corpulent Queen Victoria.

(Joseph Fiennes is good as Lord Robert Dudley, the lover whom Elizabeth leaves behind on her way to becoming Queen, but he's shown off to better advantage in the comic Shakespeare In Love — which has him playing against an older Elizabeth, portrayed by Judi Dench!)

Judi Dench will reclaim her position as Queen of the West End, when she, Daniel Radcliffe, Jude Law, David Walliams, Sheridan Smith and SIMON RUSSELL...

So thankfully Judi Dench provides much needed weight as the Queen, a role she played two decades ago in Mrs. Brown.

Judi Dench is again marvelous as Queen Victoria, despite the film's upbeat and ahistorical politics.

Twenty years after «Mrs Brown», Judi Dench is back as Queen Victoria, and once again she's hobnobbing with the hired help — this time around, a young Indian clerk (Ali Fazal).

And now here's Victoria & Abdul, which opens 20 years later and stars Judi Dench (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) again as a 20 - years - later Queen Victoria who, in the last years of her reign, develops a close platonic friendship — no suggestion of romance this time — with a servant.