MIT Lecture Series Committee

March 6 & 7, 2015

Rated PG-13
123 minutes

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format: 35mm

The Theory of Everything (2014)

2014 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne), Best Actress (Felicity Jones), Best Screenplay, Best Original Score

Starring Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) and Felicity Jones (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. 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. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed. The film is based on the memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen," by Jane Hawking, and is directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire). [www.rottentomatoes.com]

Stephen Hawking, a genius challenged by a progressive neurological disease, is a role that demands miracles of an actor. And Eddie Redmayne, in a landmark performance, delivers them.
      -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Read this review.