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Movie Description
The tragic, true story of British author C.S. Lewis' love affair with American poet Joy Davidman. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Debra Winger, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Synopsis
C.S. "Jack" Lewis, a respected Oxford professor of literature, lives a solitary existence as a middle-aged bachelor. His writings have won the admiration of Joy Gresham, an American poet recovering from a broken marriage, for whom Lewis is a paragon of literary brilliance and an inspiration. Though Lewis and Gresham have corresponded for years by mail, they never meet until Joy decides, on the spur of the moment, to take her son on a trip to England. Finally, she'll get an opportunity to meet the erudite scholar. Though their initial encounters are fettered by British upper-class social strictures and proper etiquette, Joy gradually breaks through Lewis's reserve, and the two develop a closeness that blooms into a joy-filled romance.
Film Notes
William Nicholson, the scriptwriter, created his first version of this script for BBC TV. It was subsequently produced as a made for TV film, later he adapted it into a stageplay that ran successfully in London and New York.
Copyright 1993 Savoy Pictures, Inc.
Rated BBFC U by the British Board of Film Classification.
Available to rent in the UK.
Industry Reviews
Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly - Robin F. Schwartz (11/12/1999)
"...A gratifyingly soapy love story, handsomely told....Acted with great tenderness by both [Winger and Hopkins]..."
Maslin
Quotations
"I don't really go in for seeing the sights."
"So what do you do, walk around with your eyes shut?" -- exchange between Jack Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger)
"Her letters are rather unusual. She writes as if she knows me somehow." -- Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), speaking of Gresham (Debra Winger)
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