Your readers and that gang of friends of yours.

Must be quite a boost for you, being older and wiser than all of them. We have some fine old battles in here, I can tell you that. What do they do? Sit at your feet and gaze up at you in awe? So what do you do here? Think great thoughts? Well here's your friends thinking we're unmarried and up to all sorts of wickedness, when all along we're married and up to nothing at all. Jack don’t you sometimes just burst to share the joke? They’re pressing close, almost suffocating and suddenly there’s white light.

The coats are thick and heavy.įur’s not important, John. No, John, it’s not like that hand-me down Freudianism. So to reach the magic world the child must push through the mother’s fur? It belongs to the professor's old mother. In the book you describe the house as belonging to an old professor who has no wife and yet… You say when the little girl enters the magic wardrobe she finds it full of fur coats. I will not have another blasted conversation about Jack’s blasted nursery. Why is the beer in this pub always cold? Cold beer. Hopkins and Winger are equally superb in this absorbing story of personal and spiritual transformation-a story previously filmed for British television in 1985, with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. Together, they find a way to accept and honor the time they have shared together, and under the sensitive direction of Richard Attenborough, Shadowlands arrives at a conclusion that is both heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time.

But when Joy is diagnosed with cancer, Lewis's Christian faith is put to the test-he cannot fathom why their happiness together would be so drastically challenged. Their courtship is uniquely engaging he's shy and uncertain, she's outspoken and bold. Joy Gresham (Debra Winger) arrives at Oxford as an avid admirer of Lewis's writing, and the safety of his collegiate routine is quickly disrupted when Lewis realizes that he's fallen deeply and unexpectedly in love. Best known for writing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is living comfortably as a respected Oxford don, his academic lifestyle a kind of shell protecting him from the emotional risk of love. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham. This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by William Nicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S.

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