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Manufacturer: Vision Video
Starring: Joss Ackland

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781563648137
Format: Color
ISBN: 156364813X
Label: Vision Video
Manufacturer: Vision Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vision Video
Release Date: 2004-08-06
Running Time: 73
Studio: Vision Video

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Starring Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. Winner of over a dozen prestigious awards including the International Emmy for Best Drama and two British Academy Awards.

He cried out, "Where is God when I really need him?" This film is about the agonizing spiritual crisis of C.S. Lewis when his wife died from cancer. The love, grief, pain, and sorrow were so shattering to Lewis that his basic Christian beliefs, magnificently communicated in his many books, were now called into serious doubt.

But he picked up the pieces and moved out of the depressing "shadowlands," realizing that "real life has not even begun yet."

Includes 90-minute television version and 73-minute abridged version.

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Summary: THE FINEST VERSION!
Comment: Joss Ackland is simply superb as C.S.Lewis in the perfect version of this moving story. Claire Bloom is also wonderful. Thrilled to find it available after all these years!!!

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Summary: shadowlands
Comment: Sorry haven't seen movie yet I have two movies of CS Lewis. This one is not the one I watched.

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Summary: Gets It Right better Than American Version
Comment: Central to Lewis' life was his faith, before, during and after Joy's death. This point is well made in this film. The poignant scene after the funeral in the attic with the young boy aiding Jack's grief will remain a memorable vision in my mind.

Only critique I would have is that of Joy's intellect not coming through, but on the whole this is best so far on Lewis and his Shadowlands. Image of faith as diving is well made, with Lewis telling Douglas at the end: I"ll teach you how to dive" powerful.

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Summary: Beautiful and well-acted
Comment: After years of reading Lewis' literature, I was pleased to watch this movie about his relationship with Joy Gresham. (How thrilling she had the same name as I do!) I have always felt that because I read Lewis throughout my growing up years, his ideology and viewpoint have shaped the very way I think. I felt that this depiction of Lewis was true to the person he was, the way he thought, and the way he lived. For much of the movie he continually denies his love for Joy, not so much to others as to himself. Not being one to let emotions rule him, he had trouble recognizing the depth of his feeling for Joy. However, when he finally let himself see it, his love for her added depth and dimension to life that he hadn't known was missing, like suddenly seeing a picture in 3-D. Although that depth brings pain as well as pleasure, he comes to realize that not to have opened himself up to the pain of love is in some way not to have lived. The depiction of Lewis' loss made me weep, not just for him as for all of us who lose the ones we have let ourselves love. This movie was both an enjoyable experience and a challenge to accept the fullness that life offers. After all, God himself gave us life, not just to exist but to live fully.

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Summary: Adding my voice to the consensus that this one is superior...
Comment: Anthony Hopkins did indeed "sleepwalk" his way through the American version. One got a sort of sanitized love story which was, as another reviewer said, oblivious to the identity or character of C.S. Lewis.

Having been profoundly moved by the BBC movie, when I went to see the Anthony Hopkins/Debra Winger thing I was disgusted. It's just a major studio going for the bucks, using the inherent pathos of the story, but not understanding it at all, or caring. The BBC version was much more focused on, and aware of, background, implications, details, etc... and it is quite likely that they actually knew who C.S. Lewis was.

And why on Earth would the Hollywood hotshots change the real story by reducing Joy's offspring to ONE son, when she had two?

They both appear in the BBC version. And so does a believable C.S. Lewis - unlike the Hollywood travesty.

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