W.E.

Oscar-nominated costumes highlight Madonna's directorial debut in which flashbacks into the life of infamous and scorned American socialite Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) who divorced her husband (David Harbour) to be with smitten King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) after he abdicated his throne in 1930s England for her, dominate this slow-paced, factually inspired, overreaching historical drama as an unhappy American woman (Abbie Cornish) in 1998 Manhattan obsesses over the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the stunning artifact collection that is up for auction at Sotheby's while dealing with her abusive, cheating, psychiatrist husband (Richard Coyle) and the warm affections of a widowed Russian security guard (Oscar Isaac).
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