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Title: Shadowlands (1993)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Julian Fellowes | ... | Desmond Arding | |
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Roddy Maude-Roxby | ... | Arnold Dopliss |
| Michael Denison | ... | Harry Harrington | |
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Andrew Seear | ... | Bob Chafer |
| Tim McMullan | ... | Nick Farrell | |
| John Wood | ... | Christopher Riley | |
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Andrew Hawkins | ... | Rupert Parrish |
| Peter Howell | ... | College President | |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Jack Lewis | |
| Edward Hardwicke | ... | Warnie Lewis | |
| Robert Flemyng | ... | Claude Bird | |
| James Frain | ... | Peter Whistler | |
| Toby Whithouse | ... | Frith | |
| Daniel Goode | ... | Lieven | |
| Scott Handy | ... | Standish | |
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C.S. Lewis (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is the author of the "Chronicles of Narnia" books. Known as Jack, he teaches at Oxford during the 1950s. An American fan, Joy Gresham (Debra Winger), arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically, Joy becomes terminally ill and their lives become complicated. Written by Matthew Stanfield <mattst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
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He distanced himself from love as he distanced himself from pain, until one woman got close enough to open his heart to the world. See more »Parents Guide:
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Joy: Well, if it does, sue him.
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(uncredited)
Authorship unknown, sometimes attributed to W. de Wycombe
Sung by the choir on May Day morning
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Joseph Mazzello played the director Richard Attenborough's grandson in Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). See more »Goofs
In one of the scenes in Magdalen College Chapel, a character is shown singing from a copy of the "New English Hymnal" which was not published until the 1980s. The descant to one of the hymns sung was also written later than the date at which the film is set. See more »Quotes
Douglas Gresham: [Reading Jack's inscription from his Narnia book] The magic never ends.Joy: Well, if it does, sue him.
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Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Amazing Transparent Man (1995) See more »Soundtracks
Sumer is Icumen In(uncredited)
Authorship unknown, sometimes attributed to W. de Wycombe
Sung by the choir on May Day morning
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 January 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$22,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$81,082, 2 January 1994Gross USA:
$25,842,377Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$25,842,377Company Credits
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Price Entertainment, Spelling Films International, Shadowlands Productions See more »
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I watched this film as I'm a sucker for weepies. I didn't know that it was about CS Lewis, a little naive, you may say, but I just saw that it had a good rating in the TV guide and so I set the video to record it. I have told my family that I will kill them if they ever record over this film! It is beautiful. No background knowledge of the life of CS Lewis is needed- just sit back and enjoy. Some people may criticise such things as Debra Winger's accent and the fact that Douglas (Joseph Mazzello) should have had a brother in the film, but ignore them and let yourself be submerged in the sheer excellence of the film. The best line, for me, is when Hopkins, as Lewis, is teaching his class and tells them that "The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in the desire. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach". It will leave you crying yet contented. Watch this film, but do so with a box of tissues. If you leave the room to get something, you will without fail miss something. Not a moment of this movie must be missed!