The Theory of Everything (2014)

Release date: 2014-11-26
Country: UK|Japan|USA
Language: English|French
Director: James Marsh
Production Co: Working Title Films, Dentsu Motion Pictures, Fuji Television Network
Genre: Romance, Drama, Biography
Rating: 7.7/10
Length: 2h 3min

Storyline

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

Plot Keywords

husband wife relationship, reference to stephen hawking, wheelchair, based on memoir, church choir, physicist, falling down, mute, reverse footage, professor, based on book, camping, weight loss, singing in a car, climbing stairs, 1970s, black hole, 1960s, oxford university, wheelchair bound

Short Review

Watching him [Eddie Redmayne] slumped in an electric wheelchair, simulating the effects of Hawking's motor neurone disease, it's easy to forget you're looking at an actor.