A BEAUTIFUL MIND meets MY LEFT FOOD - Redmayne & Jones excel in Oscar-worthy perfs

Rating: 9/10 (15 November 2014)

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2014) *** 1/2 Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney. Excellently acted biopic about the brilliant British physicist Stephen Hawking and his young wife Jane (Oscar worthy Redmayne & Jones both perfect) who face the greatest challenge of their lives when he is sticker in the prime of their lives with his debilitating crippling illness - Lou Gehrig's disease - and the challenges they both encounter thru out their marriage and relationship of reliance, courage and dependence (as well as independence). Based on Jane's book, Anthony McCarten's adaptation and director James Marsh manage to condense two decades of a lifetime into one soluble storyline with clear-eyed faithfulness to the troubled marriage and ongoing struggles both physical and emotional they endured.