Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
The Theory of Everything. This article is more than 11 years old. Review.Essentially an intimate marital drama rather than a career story, the film sometimes plays its ironies a little knowingly – at one point young Stephen shrugs that he…
As it happens, this film does in a number of ways resemble The Imitation Game – the recent movie about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing – and that film’s star, Benedict Cumberbatch, has himself played Hawking in a 2004 TV movie. But The…
The Theory of Everything holds you by how it dramatizes Hawking’s gradual physical disintegration — the twisting inward of his limbs, the more and more incomprehensible speech. Marsh isolates Hawking in the frame as the 1-to-1…
