Churchill

Brian Cox offers a magnetic tour de force as Winston Churchill in this singular portrait focusing on the final days before the Battle of Normandy, as the venerable statesman wrestled with the human toll that even a successful campaign would extract, and his frustrations as his operational input was waved off by Eisenhower (John Slattery) and Montgomery (Julian Wadham). Miranda Richardson, James Purefoy, Ella Purnell also star. 105 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.