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Dec 17, 1999 · Anna And The King. Drama. 149 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1999. Roger Ebert. December 17, 1999. 4 min read. King Mongkut of Siam and Anna Leonowens, the English schoolmarm who tries to civilize him, make up one of the most dubious odd couples in pop culture. Here is a man with 23 wives and 42 concubines, who allows one of his women and her lover to ...
Intense, mature version of The King and I. Read Common Sense Media's Anna and the King review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Bai Ling, Chow Yun-Fat, Jodie Foster
- Andy Tennant
- Twentieth Century Fox
Anna (Jodie Foster) has been employed to educate the king's (Chow Yun-Fat) 58 children. She knows very little of King Mongkut, apart from the fact that his people revere him as a god. She...
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- Andy Tennant
- PG-13
- Jodie Foster
The movie as great cinema: Whatever its historical faults, Anna and the King is wonderful big screen entertainment. The acting, cinematography, costumes, sets, natural locations, and directing are all great, and the screenplay is generally good. Jodie Foster is wonderful, as usual.
Movie Review. A British widow named Anna and her young son, Louis, journey to Siam at the request of its king in order to educate his 58 young heirs in the ways of the West. King Mongkut perpetuates a tradition of monarchist rule built upon dynasties of arrogance, intimidation, chauvinism and disrespect. But Anna is a strong-willed woman who ...
- Andy Tennant
Nov 29, 1999 · The young British widow, whose husband had died as an officer, has traveled thousands of miles from India to an exotic country largely unknown to the Western world. Assisted by a Siamese primer ...
Anna and the King: Directed by Andy Tennant. With Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton. The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.
