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Shadowlands (1993)
from Hbo Home Video
starring Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Michael Denison, Andrew Seear, Tim McMullan
directed by Richard Attenborough

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Moving
  When C.S.Lewis, author of such books as "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" was only a small boy of 9, his mother died and he learned that his only way through the pain and loneliness was to encase himself in an impenetrable shell, so that pain could not touch him. He leads an ordered, safe life as an Oxford Don, singing in the cathedral choir and lecturing to audiences of adoring women readers. When he meets American writer, Joy Gresham, her brash, New York, Jewish forthrightness almost batters him but... more info

• Beautiful and Infuriating
  This 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 perfectly apt--and horrifying.
  You... more info

• 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 a Christian... more info

• Not a Documentary but a Commentary
  This 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'... more info

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