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Shadowlands (1993)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:21

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: C.S. "Jack" Lewis, a respected Oxford professor of literature, lives a solitary existence as a middle-aged bachelor. His writings have won the admiration of Joy Gresham, an American poet recovering... C.S. "Jack" Lewis, a respected Oxford professor of literature, lives a solitary existence as a middle-aged bachelor. His writings have won the admiration of Joy Gresham, an American poet recovering from a broken marriage, for whom Lewis is a paragon of literary brilliance and an inspiration. Though Lewis and Gresham have corresponded for years by mail, they never meet until Joy decides, on the spur of the moment, to take her son on a trip to England. Finally, she'll get an opportunity to meet the erudite scholar. Though their initial encounters are fettered by British upper-class social strictures and proper etiquette, Joy gradually breaks through Lewis's reserve, and the two develop a closeness that blooms into a joy-filled romance. [More]

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Edward Hardwicke

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Edward Hardwicke

Director: Richard Attenborough

Director: Richard Attenborough
Producer: Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman
Screenwriter: William Nicholson
Composer: George Fenton

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Carol Cling
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Really Touching stuff. Performances get no better

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11/18/03
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
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This is the biggest tear-jerker you could ever see.

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Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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A great weepy for people of all sexes

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Dragan Antulov
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Superlative acting by Hopkins and Winger elevates this fictionalized late-in-life romance between the repressed British scholar and writer C.S. Lewis and the American Jewish housewife-poet who introduces him to sex and rejuvenates his life.

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Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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A deeply personal and moving love story filled with many moments of beauty, joy and healing.

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Jeffrey Westhoff
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Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Glossy and effective, but not as good as the Joss Ackland version.

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