Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060002835128
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
MPN: DISD52081D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2006

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Helen Mirren reigns supreme in The Queen, a witty and ingenious look at a moment that rocked the house of Windsor: the week that followed the sudden death of Princess Diana in 1997. Diana's death came at just the same time that Prime Minister Tony Blair (played by the bright Michael Sheen) was settling into his new government--and trying to figure out the delicate relationship between 10 Downing Street and Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren). A large portion of the British population was trying to figure out the Windsors that week, as Elizabeth remained stiff-upper-lip and largely mum about the death of the beloved princess. In Peter Morgan's skillful script, we watch as Blair grows increasingly impatient with the Royals, who are sequestered in their Scottish estate while the public demands some show of grief. Prince Philip (James Cromwell, in good form) clumsily decides to take Diana's sons hunting, while a sympathetically-treated Prince Charles (Alex Jennings) displays some frustration with his mother's eerie calm.

None of this conveys how funny the film is, or how deftly it flows from one scene to the next. Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things) deserves great credit for that, and for the performances, and for the movie's marvelous sense of well-roundedness; you could see this movie and groan at the cluelessness of the Royals and their outmoded existence, or you might just sympathise with showing reserve in a world that values gross public displays of emotion. But either way, you'll marvel at Mirren, who makes the Queen far more alert and human than one might ever have imagined. --Robert Horton




Rating: - A simple and incisive piece of filmwork
I originally had no intentions of watching this film let alone buying it, but then I got curious, so I picked it up for a couple of pounds.

I'm very pleased that I did, I think this gives a very good account of what happened or what may have happened in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana.

There are excellent portrayals of The Queen (Dame Helen Mirren), Prince Phillip (James Cromwell) and Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), strangely enough there is very little screen time ... Read More

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Rating: - rubbish!
Helen Mirren played the part superbly but alas, it makes pretty nauseating viewing. You'd think the whole country was in a state of utter despair when Princess Diana died (and did some moron really write a card saying "they have your blood on their hands"? How stupid have we become as a nation if so?). There was no other viewpoint to be shown and you'd have thought the whole country was baying for the Queen's blood rather than just the spiteful press..

As for Tony Blair being the champion ... Read More

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Rating: - When the death of a Lady made the Monarchy totter.
To confront the Queen of England, Tony Blair and the death of Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales, was dramatic at the time but has totally aged today. And the film has aged to. This big vignette, this enormous cameo in normal life that this week after the tragic end of a young woman was has become quaint, charmingly quaint but with little meaning left. During that week, or even that summer, the monarchy nearly fell in England but the Queen, though surrounded by too many people who were deaf and blind, managed ... Read More

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Rating: - One is not convinced...one is amused.
I thought this was hyped and it was. Helen Mirren played HM as best she could, but how does anyone, no matter how talented an actor, portray a character who never lets her guard down, who doesn`t give interviews and whose every move is a PR exercise? This film is probably close enough to what happened that terrible yet amazing summer, when the monarchy felt more pressure than it had since old Oliver Cromwell was King hunting in the seventeenth century. According to this, the Queen is a bit of a cold fish and ... Read More

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Rating: - Superlative drama with a host of real Stars.....
I have rated this film with 4 stars; not because it isn't an excellent example of a great British film, but because it made uncomfortable viewing in parts, dealing as it does with the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

I agree with the comments made about Helen Mirren in the other reviews of this film. To add to them, I think she is certainly a national treasure and very versatile an actress. The actors playing Prince Phillip and Prince Charles are exactly as I would imagine their real counterparts ... Read More

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