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THE DUKE

  • 2021
  • 1 HR, 36 min
  • MAY 6 → MAY 19
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Released September 27, 2021
United Kingdom
1 hour, 36 minutes
Sony Pictures Classics
None
Starring
  • Dame Helen Mirren
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Fionn Whitehead
  • Amiee Kelly
  • Craig Conway
  • Heather Craney
Director

Roger Mitchell

Film Information

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly — he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge — Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage — how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Dame Helen Mirren
Jim Broadbent
Fionn Whitehead
Amiee Kelly
Craig Conway
Heather Craney
Additional Credits
Roger Mitchell Director

Reviews

“The script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman is full of delightfully droll dialogue, and director Roger Michell keeps things as light and sharp as lemon soufflé.”

Raphael Abraham
Financial Times

“Bring your mum and your gran (or anyone’s gran if yours is not available) preferably to a matinee, and you’ll have a delightful time and be home, whistling cheerfully, in time for tea.”

Jessica Klang
The Playlist

“Broadbent’s considerable charisma as a prototype social justice warrior is just about enough to pull the rag-and-bone cart home on a film which becomes more defiantly contrived as it goes on.”

Fionnuala Halligan
Screen International

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