THE DUKE

THE DUKE

Rating: M   (Coarse language and a sex scene)
Duration: 96 mins
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead
Genre: Biography, comedy, drama

 

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. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.

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