# Richard III (1995)

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**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: Drama, War
**Directed by**: Richard Loncraine
**Written by**: Ian McKellen, Richard Loncraine
**Starring**: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Adrian Dunbar

> *I can smile, and murder while I smile*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a duke in 1930s England, angling to rule. Your methods are... theatrical. But a dynastic war can turn on a dime.

Loncraine finds an odd energy in Shakespeare's villainy.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, raw

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