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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303115450 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6303115454 Label: Hbo Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Release Date: January 31, 1995 Running Time: 133 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 1994 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by William Nicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham. 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. Joy Gresham (Debra Winger) arrives at Oxford as an avid admirer of Lewis's writing, and the safety of his collegiate routine is quickly disrupted when Lewis realizes that he's fallen deeply and unexpectedly in love. Their courtship is uniquely engaging; he's shy and uncertain, she's outspoken and bold. But when Joy is diagnosed with cancer, Lewis's Christian faith is put to the test--he cannot fathom why their happiness together would be so drastically challenged. Together, they find a way to accept and honor the time they have shared together, and under the sensitive direction of Richard Attenborough, Shadowlands arrives at a conclusion that is both heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. 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. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Beautiful and InfuriatingThis movie is beautiful and has lovely acting and gorgeous sets and even terrific writing. The directing, as usual with Attenborough, is first-rate. But Lewis is an infuriating person. That's partly the movie's subject: Lewis is SO repressed, SO insulated, SO narcissistic, that it takes a very aggressive woman and a tragedy to (partly) penetrate his shell. He wrote a book called "Surprised by Joy." This is a reference to Wordsworth; but it seems ... Read More Rating:  - a masterpiece...I can say unequivocally that this is my favorite movie of it's type. It is not a documentary nor is it intended to be. It is a drama loosely based (Douglas Grisham's words) on a small window of CS Lewis' life. Although CS Lewis was indeed a committed Christian, the film chose not focus on that very important aspect of his life. It is, rather, a story of two extraordinarily different people falling in love and the price that is almost always paid when hearts are completely opened. Whether you are ... Read More Rating: - Not a Documentary but a CommentaryThis movie fails to be the documentary based on "true story" but a commentary by the director and actors which fails to provide the essential Lewis story. What is left out primarily is his faith life, which was vital to him, and he wrote about till the end. It is analogous to making film about Tiger Woods with golf as not being featured as central theme. It was not shaken nor destroyed as this movie makes out. The BBC film which proceeded this, thus is far more accurate than this. Hopkins' ... Read More Rating: - Great movie...Pass the popcorn around as you watch this movie. It is a sweet movie about finding love late in life and learning to live again. Rating:  - Anyone's Life Might ChangeAs I've written before, American audiences might disagree but I think Anthony Hopkins is far more effective in these sorts of productions than he is in the Hannibal series. Shadowlands is a demanding story that says much in some very small ways that can easily be missed. Telling the (very) true to life tale of C.S. Lewis' marriage, late in his years, to an admiring American poet, Joy Gresham, who visited Lewis and his brother at Oxford, where Lewis, along with Tolkien and some others whose names ... Read More |
