Shadowlands

Shadowlands is one of the best dramas ever! Hopkins and Winger gives their best performance to date! A moving story based on the true account of famous Christian author C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy Greshem. This is a must see... Full review

Shadowlands is one of the best dramas ever! Hopkins and Winger gives their best performance to date! A moving story based on the true account of famous Christian author C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy Greshem. This is a must see... Full review

A good effort to portray the relationship between CS Lewis and Joy Davidman. Lewis junkies like me will be able to pick apart the story a little bit...why didn't they bring up this? Why didn't they emphasize that? But a good... Full review

Narnia has rediscovered and reinvented C.S. Lewis. I read a terrific biography on him and he is one interesting dude. And I had already seen this movie which I loved mainly because I love Anthony Hopkins and you can't beat Hopkins... Full review

Narnia has rediscovered and reinvented C.S. Lewis. I read a terrific biography on him and he is one interesting dude. And I had already seen this movie which I loved mainly because I love Anthony Hopkins and you can't beat Hopkins... Full review

Society today will call this 'boring' because this is a real story of relationships between two extraordinary people - not at all what 'Follywood' wants to feed us. I loved this film!... Full review

C. S. Lewis is making a bit of a comeback with the "Chronicles Of Narnia" movie of late, but here's a film portrait of him made in 1993 starring the great British actor Anthony Hopkins.To Christians, Lewis has always been... Full review

This is a well made movie with good actors. The whole thing comes together well. Rent it if you want to see a little bit of what C.S. Lewis was like. I personally liked all his books.... Full review

Based on true events and the life of C.S. Lewis. This is a wondeful picture. Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger have an interesting and believeable chemistry.... Full review

Not being a fan of chick flicks I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this film. A compelling story and interesting character development. Few films make one think and this one does a fine job at that. Is everything as... Full review

Hopkins and Winger are equally superb in this absorbing story of personal and spiritual transformation--a story previously filmed for British television in 1985, with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. Best known for writing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe , Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is living comfortably as a respected Oxford don, his academic lifestyle a kind of shell protecting him from the emotional risk of love. ... Full Review

But the tea-and-crumpets Englishness and old-fashioned (OK, leaden) direction are entirely appropriate. Hopkins -- it's almost redundant to say -- is tremendous, as he tries to understand this small being for whom he can only write abstractly. ... Full Review

The movie, which is handsomely directed by Richard Attenborough, initially focuses on Lewis, a '50s-era celebrity who remained isolated both from his public and the subjects about which he wrote and lectured. He clings to the warmth and safety of the cottage he has long shared with his bachelor brother Warnie (Edward Hardwicke in a lovely performance) and the campus -- a manly, wood-paneled preserve smelling of pipe smoke and brandy. ... Full Review

This performance also gives audiences a chance to see a gifted actor run the gamut of emotions, from disbelieving joy to tortured grief. It's hard to imagine a better choice than Anthony Hopkins for the lead role. ... Full Review

The Reviewer (https://twitter.com/The_Reviewer)What's it about?CS Lewis, author famous for the Narnia books and professor at Oxford, meets the American poet Joy Gresham who leads him to find love.Who's in it?Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger.What genre is it?Drama, Romance.What's the story?In 1952,... ... Full Article

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A Note on "Film Eligibility": Movies considered for this article are not necessarily those with 1994 Academy Award eligibility. My top ten list is comprised of films released between January 1, 1993 and December 31, 1993 in any of the... ... Full Article

Original capsule review by Steven D. Greydanus For much of his adult life, scholar and writer C.S. Lewis (Jack to his friends) was a celebrated and accomplished Christian apologist, unapologetically defending such unfashionably traditional Christian beliefs as the reality of... ... Full Article

Shadowlands Productions. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger. Original capsule review by Steven D. Greydanus For much of his adult life, scholar and writer C.S. ... Full Article

For many years his life has followed the same comfortable patterns.He is a teacher and a writer, a pipe-smoking bachelor who lives in his booklined Oxford home with his brother. ... Full Article