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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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. Full Review |
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This is the biggest tear-jerker you could ever see.
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Really Touching stuff. Performances get no better
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Glossy and effective, but not as good as the Joss Ackland version.
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A deeply personal and moving love story filled with many moments of beauty, joy and healing. Full Review |
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A great weepy for people of all sexes
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