The Theory of Everything (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Simon McBurney, Maxine Peake
Synopsis:
Prodigious Cambridge physics post-graduate student, Stephen Hawking, is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, but his girlfriend sticks by him and, over the next few years, he defies all prognostications as to his survival, while she bears the brunt of an increasingly onerous caring role.
Review:
Marsh's biopic follows some of the expected trajectories of the genre, while offering British actors a chance to shine in a period context. However, the extraordinary nature of the Hawking story, and the through-line of the tension between physics and God, are presented in such a way as to avoid scoring easy emotional points.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Simon McBurney, Maxine Peake
Synopsis:
Prodigious Cambridge physics post-graduate student, Stephen Hawking, is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, but his girlfriend sticks by him and, over the next few years, he defies all prognostications as to his survival, while she bears the brunt of an increasingly onerous caring role.
Review:
Marsh's biopic follows some of the expected trajectories of the genre, while offering British actors a chance to shine in a period context. However, the extraordinary nature of the Hawking story, and the through-line of the tension between physics and God, are presented in such a way as to avoid scoring easy emotional points.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Simon McBurney, Maxine Peake
Synopsis:
Prodigious Cambridge physics post-graduate student, Stephen Hawking, is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, but his girlfriend sticks by him and, over the next few years, he defies all prognostications as to his survival, while she bears the brunt of an increasingly onerous caring role.
Review:
Marsh's biopic follows some of the expected trajectories of the genre, while offering British actors a chance to shine in a period context. However, the extraordinary nature of the Hawking story, and the through-line of the tension between physics and God, are presented in such a way as to avoid scoring easy emotional points.