Rotten
Pleasing to watch... but [leaves] little lasting impression.
Elaine Teng, The New Republic
The Theory of Everything
His mind changed our world. Her love changed his.
2014 · 2h 3m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
James Marsh
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The Theory of Everything
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- James Marsh Director
- 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)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If the film unfolds like a fairytale, at least it's a fairytale that doesn't often get told.
Katie Kilkenny, The Atlantic
Rotten
There's little acrimony in The Theory of Everything, which may reflect Hawking's actual outlook or just the movie's puppyish desire to please.
Mark Jenkins, NPR
Rotten
Director Marsh is a gifted documentarian, but at this point, his dramatic technique is too shallow to get inside his characters' heads.
David Edelstein, Vulture
Fresh
The film both adheres to and gently upends the conventions of the Great Man genre.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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