National Review, December 27th, 1993
SHADOWLANDS, by William Nicholson, has already been a successful television movie and stage play, so that a theatrical film may have seemed redundant. Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom on TV, Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Alexander on stage, were everything one might ask for in this (broadly) true story of C. S. Lewis's belated marriage and all too early bereavement. The celebrated Oxford don, literary scholar, children's novelist, and Christian philosopher married, late in life, Joy Gresham, a minor American poet and ex-Communist, Jewish and the mother of one young boy (in real life, two). The movie...
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