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    Mrs Brown (1997)

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    Judi Dench and Billy Connolly are a wonderfully regal double-act in this perceptive blend of fact and fiction.

    The story examines the relationship between Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant, John Brown (a favourite riding companion of her late husband,) who audaciously dispelled her gloom after the death of Prince Albert and with whom she became so close that gossips gave her his name.

    The Oscar-nominated Dench provides a wonderfully dignified counter-balance to comedian Connolly, whose forthright bluntness causes consternation among her tradition-bound household staff.

    Though the role was originally to have been played by Sean Connery, Connolly is more than just a substitute and he makes the part his own.

    Director John Madden and scriptwriter Jeremy Brock have created an engrossing account of an attachment that might have fulfilled itself romantically had it not been for the repressive conventions of the time.

    Queen Victoria
    Judi Dench
    John Brown
    Billy Connolly
    Benjamin Disraeli
    Antony Sher
    Henry Ponsonby
    Geoffrey Palmer
    Doctor Jenner
    Richard Pasco
    Bertie, Prince of Wales
    David Westhead
    Archie Brown
    Gerard Butler
    Lady Ely
    Bridget McConnel
    Lady Churchill
    Georgie Glen
    Lady in waiting
    Catherine O’Donnell
    Princess Alexandra
    Sara Stewart
    Princess Helena
    Finty Williams
    Princess Louise
    Claire Nicolson
    Princess Alice
    Hattie Ladbury
    Prince Alfred
    Oliver Kent
    Prince Arthur
    Alex Menzies
    Prince Leopold
    Simon McKerrell

    Director
    John Madden

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