DIRECTOR: James Marsh

CAST: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, David Thewlis

REVIEW:

The Theory of Everything is an undistinguished biopic about a very distinguished individual.  An adaptation of the memoirs of Jane Hawking, it chronicles her marriage to her former husband Stephen Hawking and the journey of their complicated relationship amid his physical degeneration while giving the shallow basics of his theorizing about the origins of the universe.  It serves its basic purpose of showing the more personal side of a famed theoretical physicist, but there’s a feeling of skimming the surface. Continue reading →