- My Kingdom (film)
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My Kingdom is a 2001 British crime film directed by Don Boyd and starring Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave and Jimi Mistry.
It premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival but failed to make an impression[1]
A break, dinner and then one last film: Don Boyd’s My Kingdom, a modern reworking of King Lear with Richard Harris as an ageing mobster who carves out his ‘kingdom’ to his two vile daughters. A lethargic and slow moving piece, Harris is dull in this one, and the movie rambles on with its forgettable characters that remain poorly defined. It was easy to sleep after viewing this disappointing bore of a film.The following year My Kingdom grossed $2,607 on its opening weekend in Los Angeles for an eventual domestic gross of $4,296 in its US release.[2]
The film, co-scripted by Boyd with Nick Davies and drawing on both their researches into the London and Liverpool criminal underworld (which in Boyd's case included the Kray bothers), brought Boyd into conflict with its principal lead Richard Harris, who wanted to rewrite the script.[3][4] The film subsequently received mixed reviews while generally acknowledging a fine performance from Harris who was nominated for a British Independent Film Award.[5][6]
Cast
- Richard Harris ... Sandeman
- Reece Noi ... The Boy
- Lynn Redgrave ... Mandy
- Tom Bell ... Quick
- Emma Catherwood ... Jo
- Aidan Gillen ... Puttnam
- Louise Lombard ... Kath
- Paul McGann ... Dean
- Jimi Mistry ... Jug
- Lorraine Pilkington ... Tracy
- Colin Salmon ... The Chair
- James Foy ... Animal
- James McMartin ... Mineral
- Danny Lawrence ... Tigger
- Gerard Starkey ... Minder
- Sasha Johnson Manning ... Soprano
- Seamus O'Neill ... Snowy
- Chris Armstrong ... Dutch farmer
- Ingi Thor Jonsson ... Dutch farmer
- Otis Graham ... Delroy
- David Yip ... Merv
- Kieran O'Brien ... Photographer
- Jack Marsden ... Billy the whizz
- Amer Nazir ... Mutt
- Mushi Noor ... Jeff
- Carl Learmond ... Rudi
- Anthony Dorrs ... Skunk
- Steve Foster ... Toffee
- Oscar James ... Desmond
- Sylvia Gatril ... Brothel receptionist
- Sharon Byatt ... Annie
- Desmond Bayliss ... John the dog
- Kelly Murphy ... Karen
- Leanne Burrows ... Miss Joy
References
- ^ Paul Fischer: Toronto Film Festival – 2001
- ^ Box Office Mojo: My Kingdom
- ^ Shooting? That was too good for Billy...
- ^ The directors: Don Boyd on directing Richard Harris
- ^ My Kingdom (2001) at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ British Independent Film Awards 2002
External links
Categories:- 2001 films
- British films
- 2000s crime films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Don Boyd
- Modern adaptations of works by William Shakespeare
- Films based on King Lear
- 2000s British film stubs
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