Life Story (1987) (TV)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Mick Jackson

Writers:

William Nicholson (writer)
James Watson (book)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot:

Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind...

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Biochemistry | University | Discovery | Race Against Time

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Jeff Goldblum	...	Jim Watson
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Francis Crick
Alan Howard	...	Maurice Wilkins
Juliet Stevenson	...	Rosalind Franklin
Betsy Brantley	...	Elizabeth Watson
John Moreno	...	Vittorio Luzzati
Daniel André Pageon	...	First Colleague
Yves Aubert	...	Second Colleague
Anthony Benson	...	J.T. Randall
Clive Panto	...	Max Perutz
Rupert Massey	...	John Kendrew
Geoffrey Chater	...	Sir Lawrence Bragg
Nicholas Fry	...	Raymond Gosling
Tom McCabe	...	Bill Seeds
Petronella Ford	...	Odile Crick

Also Known As:

Double Helix
The Race for the Double Helix (USA)

Runtime:

USA:97 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Company:

A&E Television Networks

Trivia:

Was originally shown as a "Horizon special" on the BBC, Horizon being the name of BBC2's main science programme.

Quotes:

Francis Crick: Piano, my boy! Softly, softly, catchy monkey!

Soundtrack:

Grande Chorale

Great Movie

I watched this movie in my Biology Class and I do not know why anyone found this boring, it was actually pretty interesting. We actually learned a little bit more about them before watching it and read their original papers in my class so maybe thats why, we found it a little easier to understand and more relevant for us. Watson and Crick were extremely funny and their focus on things other than science was a perspective into the world of scientists, where not everything is science, science, and more science and except you go about it in a roundabout away. I would recommend this movie for anyone, but I suggest to get a little more background into the who the people actually were and what they did and it will help you understand the movie a lot better.