Film: The Lost King 
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd, Mark Addy, James Fleet, Lee Ingleby, Adam Robb, Benjamin Scanlan
Director: Stephen Frears
Rating: 3/5

This Stephen Frears-directed film is based on a true story (detailed in Philippa Langley’s excellent book The Search for Richard III) about the amateur historian who defied the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III`s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Already fascinated by the Richard III story after an experimental performance of the Shakespearean play, Philippa (Sally Hawkins in her most memorable role yet) sets about correcting historical wrongs by stepping on academic toes with her path-breaking research that owes it’s journey to a pamphlet put out by the Richard III Society exhorting its readers to work towards changing the way history views this much-maligned monarch.