Fine movie with Redmayne's award-winning performance.

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2015)

I will always have to wonder how this movie is viewed and received by non-Scientific viewers. I am a Scientist, of Hawking's vintage. My main areas are Math, Chemistry and Physics. So I went into viewing this movie already pretty familiar with Hawking and his works.
Eddie Redmayne of course won the best actor Oscar for his performance as Hawking and it is fully deserved. Felicity Jones is fine as his girlfriend who stands by him when his illness is diagnosed and becomes Mrs Jane Hawking.
The story here starts in 1963 when Hawking is a new graduate student in Physics and is having difficulty declaring a field of study for his PhD. But he finally gets inspired and writes a thesis on the origin of space and time as a singularity that became the Big Bang. Of course later in life he said his new theory goes against that earlier one.
The thing about this type of Physics, there is no good experimental evidence for most of them, making it difficult to know how valuable their contributions might be, aside from his best-selling book "A Brief History of Time."
As the movie unfolds we don't get a good feel for the time but in the end there are Hawking children in their late teens so it must have been up to about 1990 or so. We see Hawking's physical health degrade, his being fitted with various devices that allows him to communicate.
Good movie.