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    'Victoria And Abdul': Part Satire, Part Love Story, All Charming

    Judi Dench returns to the role of Queen Victoria — this time in her dotage — for Stephen Frears' film about the monarch's eyebrow-raising friendship with a young Indian man (Ali Fazal).
    by Ella Taylor Sep 21, 2017 3 minutes
    Amusing, But Not Amused: Judi Dench stars as the Queen of England and the Empress of India in <em>Victoria and Abdul</em>.

    is not the first movie to show the Queen of England cavorting with the help. And you don't have to be a cynic to read Stephen Frears' new film as a brazen attempt to piggyback on the runaway success of 1997's . In which, you may recall, the newly widowed monarch (played, as is only right and proper, by Judi Dench) found all kinds of implied solace in the company of a lowly Scottish servant (Billy Connolly) who raised

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