

Richard III
I can smile, and murder while I smile
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $2.7M
- Language
- English
- england
- kidnapping
- murder
- king
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United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR29 Dec 1995
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1512 Feb 1996
GermanyDE
- Physical1614 Mar 1996
ItalyIT
- Theatrical18 Apr 1996
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical189 Nov 1996
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Richard III was released on 29 December 1995.
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tmdb28039023
8/27/2022
Co-writers Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine (who also directs) set their Richard III in 1930s Britain, and make the infamous hunchback a fascist warmonger plotting to usurp the throne. Today's English monarchy is, at best, nominal, but even way back in the 1930s there wasn't much to be gained by usurping it. Then again, the film takes place in an alternate reality where the War of the Roses occurs 450 years afte…
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