King Lear 1999

King Lear (1999) is a Drama film from United Kingdom in the lookmovie catalog, running 3h 10m. Directed by Brian Blessed, it features Brian Blessed and Hildegard Neil. Viewers rate it 9/10 from 1 vote. King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favour, he banishes her and turns for support to his other two daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favours his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar.