Movie Review: "The King's Speech"

Published: Jan. 21, 2011, 5 a.m.

Some people, and you may be one of them, have difficulties speaking in public. But just imagine the anxiety you'd have if you had to speak to an entire nation...and had a stammer. An Englishman called Bertie found himself in just that predicament when he became King George VI in 1936. The new film The King's Speech is the story of how he overcame that hurdle with the help of unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. Larry Thomas brings us this review.