Shadowlands
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Andrew Seear, Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Michael Denison, Tim McMullan Director: Richard Attenborough DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 131 minutes Published: 1999-04-01 DVD Release Date: 1999-04-13 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Hbo Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of Shadowlands
Movie Review: C.S. Lewis for dummies.
Summary: 2 Stars
A shamelessly tear-jerking soap opera from that paragon of conventionality, Richard Attenborough. *Shadowlands* will seem a lot better to those who don't know much about C.S. Lewis, but for those who know something of his life and writings, it will seem inadequate. It's really almost inexcusable that a movie about this famous intellectual, children's novelist, and Christian apologist is so devoid of intellect, so devoid of the ideas that made this figure unique in 20th Century letters. (The movie shows Lewis speaking the same tail-end of the same lecture to THREE different audiences. Didn't he have anything else to say?) If you want to make a movie about a nice, quiet, shy old English guy who falls in love with a brassy-voiced American, then do us all a favor and invent the characters out of whole cloth. C.S. Lewis deserves better than this. And it's pretty far removed from what actually occurred in his life. He and his future wife, the American poet Joy Gresham, had known each for years before tying the knot, relating to each other primarily as fellow Christian intellectuals. Here, Attenborough (or the playwright who originally wrote the story) insists on a standard Hollywood "cute-meet": Joy blares out "Anybody here called 'Lewis'?" in a tea-room. But I suppose that we can't expect too much intellectual discourse in a movie designed for the multiplex. Ultimately, one gets the sense that the filmmakers are almost out to get Lewis: that same speech he keeps making has something to do with God wanting us to experience suffering so that we can "grow up". Can you see what's coming? That's right -- cancer for his new lady-love. Debra Winger is sadly put in the position again where she has to slowly die of incurable cancer, as in *Terms of Endearment*. As for Anthony Hopkins, he -- rather like Robert Duvall -- tends to basically play himself whenever he's trapped in a mediocre script, and he does so here.