The Lion in Winter (2003 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Lion in Winter


caption = DVD cover
director = Andrei Konchalovsky
producer = Patrick Stewart
Dyson Lovell
writer = James Goldman
starring = Patrick Stewart
Glenn Close
Andrew Howard
John Light
Rafe Spall
music = Richard Hartley
cinematography = Sergei Kozlov
editing = Henry Richardson
distributor = Showtime Networks
Hallmark Entertainment
released = United Kingdom:
December 26, 2003
United States:
May 23, 2004
runtime = 167 min.
country = United States
language = English
preceded_by = "The Lion in Winter" (1968)
imdb_id = 0319754

"The Lion in Winter" is a 2003 made-for-television remake of the 1968 film.

A television production of "The Lion in Winter" was first shown on 26 December 2003 in the U.K.. It starred Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close, and was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.

Andrew Howard, John Light, and Rafe Spall played the warring brothers. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the king of France and Yuliya Vysotskaya, his sister and Henry's mistress, Princess Alais.

Cast

*Patrick Stewart as King Henry II
*Glenn Close as Queen Eleanor
*Andrew Howard as Richard the Lionheart
*John Light as Geoffrey
*Rafe Spall as John
*Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Philip II
*Yuliya Vysotskaya as Alais
*Clive Wood as Captain William Marshall

Goofs

* Continuity: When Richard holds the knife out to Eleanor in the dungeon, the knife reverses orientation and his grip on the handle changes between shots.
* Anachronisms: Eleanor refers to syphilis in one of her speeches, an impossibility in 1183 England. Syphilis was not named such until 1530 by Hieronymus Fracastorius. Regardless of whether Europe even had the disease prior to 1200, it could not have been known by that name to the Queen.

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