Colm Meaney, David Alan Grier, Julie Cox

It's Shakespeare with six-guns as King of Texas goes boldly where no TV Western had gone before. Transplanting King Lear to a Texas cattle ranch was a risky proposition, but as star and ...( read more  read more... )co-executive producer (with his wife and fellow Star Trek: The Next Generation alumnus, Wendy Neuss), Patrick Stewart brings his formidable Shakespearean training to bear on a condensed but satisfying interpretation. Whereas Akira Kurosawa's Ran required a gender-switching overhaul of Shakespeare's tragedy, this handsomely mounted TNT Original retains the feuding sisterhood of Lear's undoing. As aging cattle baron John Lear, Stewart sets his downfall in motion, dividing his land and loyalties among daughters played with stalwart fortitude by Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly, and Julie Cox. Familial machinations multiply with a stellar supporting cast (Roy Scheider is the Earl of Gloucester here), and for all of Stewart's impressive fury, it's comedy veteran David Alan Grier (interpreting Shakespeare's "Fool") who quietly steals the show. --Jeff Shannon

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Directed by: Uli Edel

Release Date: June 2, 2002

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DVD Release Date: December 10, 2002

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  • April 30, 2008
    Patrick Stewart is a great actor
  • August 21, 2007
    i would like to see this one..
  • July 5, 2007
    I was not impressed...
  • December 19, 2006
    King Lear as a western starring Patrick Stewart...how can you go wrong?
  • December 3, 2006
    I would like to see this, i think...

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