Set in England in 1952, Shadowlands is the tender and deeply moving true story of the love affair between CS Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). CS Lewis, a highly acclaimed writer (The Narnia Chronicles) lived a quiet and ordered life as a professor of English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford. This solitude is shattered by the arrival of the outgoing American divorcee, Joy Gresham, who walks into his life with her young son Douglas (Joseph Mazzello). A deep friendship begins which turns into love when Joy is admitted to hospital with advanced bone cancer. Faced with the possibility of her death, Lewis allows himself for the first time in his life to be open to the joy of love even if it entails vulnerability and the pain of loss...
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Written by
William Nicholson (play) William Nicholson (screenplay)
Starring
Julian Fellowes (Desmond Arding); Roddy Maude-Roxby (Arnold Dopliss); Michael Denison (Harry Harrington); Andrew Seear (Bob Chafer); Tim McMullan (Nick Farrell); John Wood (Christopher Riley); Andrew Hawkins (Rupert Parrish); Peter Howell (College President); Anthony Hopkins (Jack Lewis); Edward Hardwicke (Warnie Lewis); Robert Flemyng (Claude Bird); James Frain (Peter Whistler); Toby Whithouse (Frith); Daniel Goode (Lieven); Scott Handy (Standish). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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