The Quenn

This Week : 10
PG13, Drama, 1hr 41min
Opened on September 29, 2006

Director : Stephen Frears
Producer : Francois Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Scott Rudin
Starring : Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Helen McCrory
Distributors : Miramax Films

A revealing, witty portrait of the British royal family in crisis immediately following the death of Princess Diana. The setting for this fictional account of real events is no less than the private chambers of the Royal Family and the British government in the wake of the sudden death of Princess Diana in August of 1997. In the immediate aftermath of the Princess's passing, the tightly contained, tradition-bound world of the Queen of England clashes with the slick modernity of the country's brand new, image-conscious Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The result is an intimate, yet thematically epic, battle between private and public, responsibility and emotion, custom and action - as a grieving nation waits to see what its leaders will do.