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The Twentieth Century (2019) on Netflix

NR20191h 30mComedy

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King is certain he is destined to become Prime Minister. His own obsessions stand in the way, and Lord Muto, a dictator, oversees Canadian politics.

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In Toronto in 1899, William Lyon Mackenzie King is certain that he is destined to become Prime Minister, yet he must master his personal obsessions to reach the office. Lord Muto oversees Canadian politics with far more control than a governor general would hold, and he is conspiring to draw the Canadian military deeper into the Boer War. Arthur Meighen is a rival King already knows and dislikes, and Bert Harper is a government bureaucrat.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Twentieth Century (2019)

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  • The film's Lord Muto is an Orwellian dictator with far more control over Canadian politics than real Governors General have, running elections in a manner closer to The Hunger Games than real Canadian democracy and openly conspiring to draw the Canadian military deeper into the Boer War; the real Lord Minto was a benign figure best known as a patron of amateur sports.
  • Three significant characters, King's mother, J. Israël Tarte and Lady Violet, are played by cross-gender performers in drag, while two white Anglo-Saxon Protestant characters, Bert Harper and Dr. Wakefield, are played by Asian-Canadian actors; director Matthew Rankin called it a "school-play approach that you don't see so much in film".

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