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Hawking

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Lisa Dillon, John Sessions
Director: Philip Martin
Format: PAL
Released: 13 Sep 2004
RRP: £14.99
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Was Hawking living a movie? - By: E. PARRY, 15 Sep 2005
It's fair enough that a biopic of Stephen Hawking might choose to vastly simplify the scientific research with which he was involved, but this one's also simplified his life events as well by the looks of it. Either that or the early life of Mr Hawking was actuallly filled with every movie cliché in the book. Pretty much every narrative point is delivered by a scene that you're sure you've seen in another film: the scene where trains spark a scientific revelation, or the scene were someone puts a Mozart record on & talks about how Mozart was a genius, later followed by a scene where something brilliant is described as 'Mozart', to name but two.

There was a nice device whereby Hawkings' story was interjected by scenes of two American scientists discussing their own discovery. The connection to Hawking was only revealed at the very end, which was an effective way of keeping you hooked. All in alll this was pretty much a made-for-TV rainy day movie which was filled with too many obviously-made-up movie cliché moments to be informative about Hawking himself.

A big bang! - By: , 17 May 2005
A gripping account of the famous physicists diagnosis of motor neuron disease at the age of 21, & his subsequent discoveries in the field of cosmology, in particular his work on the big bang & black holes. Hawking's neurological demise is excellently portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, & the blossoming relationship between Hawking & his future wife Jane, in the face of his rapidly diminishing health, is beautifully depicted. Hawking's realisation of the concept that led to his explanation of the big bang is an incredibly uplifting moment. I could not recommend this highly enough!