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The Theory of Everything
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.
2014 · Directed by James Marsh · 123 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
His mind changed our world. Her love changed his.
Plot
In 1963, Stephen Hawking, a postgraduate astrophysics student at the University of Cambridge, begins a relationship with literature student Jane Wilde. Although Stephen is intelligent, both his friends and fellow academics are worried about his lack of a thesis topic. After attending a lecture by Roger Penrose on black holes with his advisor, Prof. Dennis Sciama, Stephen speculates that these might have been part of the universe's creation and decides on his thesis.
However, soon Stephen's muscles begin to fail, causing him to lose coordination. After a bad fall, he is diagnosed with early-onset progressive degenerative motor neurone disease (MND) that will eventually leave him unable to move, swallow, or even breathe. With no treatment options, he is given approximately two years to live. The doctor assures Stephen that his brain will not be affected, so his thoughts and intelligence will remain intact, but eventually, he will be unable to communicate with them. Stephen develops severe depression, becoming reclusive and focusing on his work. Jane confesses she loves him and that she intends to stay, even as his condition worsens. They marry and have their first son, Robert. Once his walking ability deteriorates, he begins using a wheelchair.
Inspired by Penrose's work on spacetime singularities at the centre of black holes, Stephen presents his doctoral thesis viva, extrapolating that a black hole created the universe in a Big Bang and it will end in a Big Crunch.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Anthony McCarten
- Cinematography: Benoît Delhomme
- Edited by: Jinx Godfrey
- Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson
- Production design: John Paul Kelly
- Produced by: Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Tim Bevan
Cast
- Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking
- Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking
- Charlie Cox as Jonathan Hellyer Jones
- Emily Watson as Beryl Wilde
- Simon McBurney as Frank Hawking
- David Thewlis as Dennis Sciama
- Maxine Peake as Elaine Mason
- Harry Lloyd as Brian
- Tom Prior as Robert Hawking (Age 17)
- Sophie Perry as Lucy Hawking (Age 14)
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Latin, English, French, Italian
- Studios: Working Title, Working Title Films
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $123,726,688
- Themes: husband wife relationship, biography, based on true story, physicist, based on memoir or autobiography, fictional biography, medical drama, motor neuron disease, als, cambridge university
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