Lionheart (2003)

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In the waning years of his life, but no less brutal for it, King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) is holding Christmas court at Chinon, during which he will announce the blood successor to his throne. Assembled for this event are his equally calculating wife, Eleanor of Acquitaine (Glenn Close), imprisoned for ten years by her husband for a political coup of her own; his shamelessly flaunted mistress, Alais (Julia Vysotskaia), and her venomous brother, King Philip of France (Jonathan Rhys Meyers); and Henry s three sons, Prince Richard the Lionhearted (Andrew Howard), who can t fathom the depth of leadership, the shallow Prince Geoffrey (John Light), and the luckless and bumbling Prince John (Rafe Spall). What the three siblings share is a gift for treachery.