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Hawking

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins View All


Crew

Philip Martin (Director), Peter Moffat (Writer) View All

Release: Dec. 10th, 2004
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.
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Iroquois
I can understand why the makers wouldn't want to do a film that focused primarily on Hawking's disability, but the fact that the film frames the main conflict as Hawking trying to complete his work before succumbing to his disease fails to set up any urgency whatsoever.


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