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    Shadowlands (1994)

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    After the sweeping, noble scale of Gandhi (1982) and Cry Freedom (1987), Richard Attenborough directed this more intimate drama which remains one of his best pictures to date.

    Based on William Nicholson’s play, it charts the tragic love affair between the author CS Lewis, creator of the Narnia Chronicles, and Joy Gresham, an American poet.

    Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger give perfect performances. The tone is set by Winger’s entrance into Oxford’s Randolph Hotel: “Anyone here named Loowis?” she rasps – upsetting the decorum of academe and rattling Hopkins’s teacup – and thereafter, Hopkins’s life as an emotionally frigid bachelor is transformed.

    With its immaculate 1950s setting, the film creates a totally convincing world and Attenborough gets beneath the skin of his characters like never before.

    CS “Jack” Lewis
    Anthony Hopkins
    Joy Gresham
    Debra Winger
    Christopher Riley
    John Wood
    Warnie Lewis
    Edward Hardwicke
    Douglas Gresham
    Joseph Mazzello
    Desmond Arding
    Julian Fellowes
    Arnold Dopliss
    Roddy Maude-Roxby
    Harry Harrington
    Michael Denison
    Doctor Craig
    Peter Firth
    Bob Chafer
    Andrew Seear
    Nick Farrell
    Tim McMullan
    Rupert Parrish
    Andrew Hawkins
    College president
    Peter Howell
    Claude Bird
    Robert Flemyng
    Peter Whistler
    James Frain
    Frith
    Toby Whithouse

    Director
    Richard Attenborough

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