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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 4371123, member: 2504"] The Duke (2020) - This is a British film that stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren based on a true story that happened around 1961 in Britain. Broadbent plays Kempton Bunton, an old working class man who is self educated. Bunton is a man who sees perceived social misjustice pretty much everywhere he looks, and he is the type of person who wants to talk about it to just about anyone he runs into whether they want to hear about or not. One of Bunton’s big pet peeves is the TV license fee that people in Great Britain have to pay. Bunton has a constant one man campaign going on around the belief that elderly British folks should be exempt from the TV license fee. I thought the film was entertaining to a degree, but I suspect a number of people would find at least the first part of the film a bit on the dull side, as there isn’t much of any really action to this picture. To me the film really picks up in entertainment value once it turns into a bit of courtroom drama in the second half of the film dealing with the theft of the title subject. This part of the film I thought was very good, and made the whole thing worth watching. Funny thing, there is a good tie in to an early James Bond film at the end of this movie. [/QUOTE]