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Popcorn Reviews
With Cybčle: Mrs. Brown
By Cybčle Elaine Werts
CybeleW@aol.com
First published
in the Shelburne News, Shelburne Vermont \
Popcorn Kernel Rating: 3 Kernels - a
powerful love story of unusual proportions.
Mrs. Brown is a quiet character study of the
relationship between Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and John Brown
(Billy Connolly), her stableman in the late 1800’s. The queen,
in deep mourning over the death over her husband Price Albert,
is unable to rouse herself from depression, much less run the
country. John Brown, with his bold and intrusive ways, comes
into her life (against the court’s wishes) and becomes her
only real friend.
Over the next fifteen years or so they become
closer and closer, until Mr. Brown is seen as the power behind
the throne and Queen Victoria is called "Mrs. Brown"
behind her back. Although their love may not have been the
romantic love of Sleepless in Seattle, or even the sex of
another Friends episode, their connection is willful, and as
painful a love sometimes is. Dispite very little action, this
movie moves along briskly as the queen finds her way out of the
depths of dispair and even smiles a bit along the way, usually
at Mr. Brown.
Suggested Gustatorial Accompaniment: Crumpets?
Sure, why not?
Copyright 2000
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