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MOVIE · 2014

The Theory of Everything

DramaRomance123 min

At Cambridge, gifted physics student Stephen Hawking falls for fellow student Jane Wilde just as a diagnosis of motor neurone disease changes the course of his life. Eddie Redmayne is Hawking, first seen as a sharp, restless young academic whose work in theoretical physics gathers momentum even as his body begins to fail him; Felicity Jones’s Jane meets that upheaval with love, resolve, and growing strain. Following their marriage and Hawking’s emergence as a major scientific figure, the film stays close to the daily realities behind the public story: lectures, hospital visits, family life, and the practical adjustments that reshape both of their futures.

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