The Christian Century, February 23rd, 1994
FOR A WATERY soul like mine, Richard Attenborough's film version of William Nicholson's drama about the marriage of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman Gresham demands a whole packet of tissues. With Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom as its stars, Shadowlands won large audiences in the 1980s as a BBC film and then as a play in London and New York. With Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger in the lead roles, the movie is garnering popular acclaim. Our local theater was sold out, and at the end we all emerged red-eyed, blinking back the tears.
The question, theologically and aesthetically, is whether these ...
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