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Hawking (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Philip Martin

Written By:
Peter Moffat

Actors:
Benedict Cumberbatch ..... Stephen Hawking
Michael Brandon ..... Arno Penzias
Tom Hodgkins ..... Bob Wilson
Lisa Dillon ..... Jane Wilde
Phoebe Nicholls ..... Isobel Hawking
Adam Godley ..... Frank Hawking
Peter Firth ..... Sir Fred Hoyle
Tom Ward ..... Roger Penrose
John Sessions ..... Dennis Sciama
Rohan Siva ..... Jayant Narlikar
Matthew Marsh ..... Dr. John Holloway
Anastasia Hille ..... Nurse Susan McClean
Bertie Carvel ..... George Ellis
Christian Rubeck ..... Interviewer / Reporter (as Christian Pedersen)
Sebastian Armesto ..... Robert Silkin
Charlie Beall ..... Hugh
Che Cartwright ..... Guildenstern
Rory Copus ..... Edgar
Deirdre Costello ..... Barmaid
Alice Eve ..... Martha Guthrie
Carolina Giammetta ..... Lidia Sciama
Anthony Howell ..... Hamlet
Philip McGinley ..... Chris
David McKail ..... Frink
Leon Ockenden ..... Rosencrantz
Daniel Pape ..... TV Producer
Linda Spurrier ..... Train Passenger
James Warrior ..... Cab Driver
Mark Wells ..... Cyclist #1

Synopsis:

In January 1963, 21-year-old Stephen Hawking (author of the international best seller A Brief History of Time) stood in a consulting room on the third floor of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He looked out on the snow-covered street below, listening in silence to the carefully chosen words of the hospital's senior neurologist. In two years, the doctor slowly explained, Stephen would be dead. He had been diagnosed with ALS - amyotrophic latereral sclerosis, or motor neurone disease. Featuring an Award-winning cast HAWKING is a dramatization of those next two extraordinary years. In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, HAWKING is both a love story and a historical account culminating in one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of any age, the final proof of Einstein's big bang theory. Against all the odds and with the strength of this girlfriend Jane's love, Stephen survived his debilitating illness and went on to make his ground-breaking discovery that contributed to the Nobel Prize of 1978 and is still acknowledged today.

A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe.

Hawking, a bright and ambitious 21-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University, is diagnosed with the debilitating motor neurone disease and given two years to live. Against the odds, he goes on to achieve scientific success and worldwide acclaim, in particular with his best-selling book A Brief History Of Time.

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