THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2014)

One of the most beautiful, lyrical films of the year - and featuring Oscar-worthy performances by Felicity Jones and especially the incredible, long-overdue-for-the-attention Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything is only a biography in telling the story of Hawking's life, illness and work through the love story between him and his wife Jane.  Meeting at Cambridge in 1963, the two were already in love by the time Hawking's work as a student was turning him into a local celebrity, and when his debilitating illness began to show itself, it was Jane who stayed by his side, never stopped believing in him.  The film touches, of course, on Hawking's work as a cosmologist, seeking to discover the one equation that would explain everything in the universe, but it's really the story of Stephen and Jane and a marriage that kept Hawking going long beyond the doctors had written him off.  Incredible performances, and total Oscar bait come February (deservedly so). And again, Redmayne is nothing short of amazing. (PG-13)  A

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