Shadowlands (1993)

Director:

Richard Attenborough

Writers:

William Nicholson (play)
William Nicholson (screenplay)

Release Date:

14 enero 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Biografía | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

He thought that magic only existed in books, and then he met her.

Plot:

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

Plot Keywords:

American In The Uk | Life | Female Writer | Teaching | Middle Age Couple

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Dewy-eyed, but not all wet

Cast

Julian Fellowes	...	Desmond Arding
Roddy Maude-Roxby	...	Arnold Dopliss
Michael Denison	...	Harry Harrington
Andrew Seear	...	Bob Chafer
Tim McMullan	...	Nick Farrell
John Wood	...	Christopher Riley
Andrew Hawkins	...	Rupert Parrish
Peter Howell	...	College President
Anthony Hopkins	...	C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
Edward Hardwicke	...	Warnie Lewis
Robert Flemyng	...	Claude Bird
James Frain	...	Peter Whistler
Toby Whithouse	...	Frith
Daniel Goode	...	Lieven
Scott Handy	...	Standish
Charles Simon	...	Barker
Giles Oldershaw	...	Marcus
Simon Cowell-Parker	...	John Egan
Roger Ashton-Griffiths	...	Dr. Eddie Monk
Pat Keen	...	Mrs. Young
Carol Passmore	...	Woman in Tea Room
Howard Lew Lewis	...	Tea Room Waiter (as Howard 'Lew' Lewis)
Debra Winger	...	Joy Gresham
Joseph Mazzello	...	Douglas Gresham
John Quentin	...	Station Acquaintance
Alan Talbot	...	College Porter
Leigh Burton-Gill	...	Mrs. Parrish
Cameron Burton-Gill	...	Parrish Children
Chandler Burton-Gill	...	Parrish Children
Kendall Burton-Gill	...	Parrish Children
Christina Burton-Gill	...	Parrish Children
Sylvia Barter	...	Woman in Bookshop
James Watt	...	Boy in Bookshop
Pauline Melville	...	Committee Chairwoman
Sophie Stanton	...	Lecture Committee
Ysobel Gonzalez	...	Lecture Committee
Ninka Scott	...	Lecture Committee
Walter Sparrow	...	Fred Paxford
Gerald Sim	...	Superintendent Registrar
Terry Rowley	...	Registrar
Norman Bird	...	Taxi Driver Witness
Peter Firth	...	Dr. Craig
Abigail Hopkins	...	Staff Nurse (as Abigail Harrison)
Julian Firth	...	Father John Fisher
Karen Lewis	...	Hotel Receptionist
Matthew Delamere	...	Simon Chadwick
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
JB Blanc	...	Undergraduate (uncredited)
Roger Morrison	...	Child in Church (uncredited)
Trevor Payne	...	Student (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Richard Attenborough

Créditos del guión
William Nicholson		(play)
William Nicholson		(screenplay)

Producida por
Richard Attenborough	....	producer
Terence A. Clegg	....	executive producer (as Terence Clegg)
Brian Eastman	....	producer
Diana Hawkins	....	co-producer
Alison Webb	....	associate producer

Música original por
George Fenton

Fotografía por
Roger Pratt

Montaje por
Lesley Walker

Casting
Lucy Boulting

Diseño de producción por
Stuart Craig

Dirección artística
John King		(supervising art director)
Michael Lamont

Decorados
Stephanie McMillan		(as Stephenie McMillan)

Diseño de vestuario por
Penny Rose

Departamento de maquillaje
Christine Beveridge	....	makeup designer
Betty Glasow	....	chief hair stylist
Norma Webb	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Terence A. Clegg	....	executive in charge of production (as Terence Clegg)

Ayudante de dirección
Patrick Clayton	....	first assistant director
Sean Clayton	....	third assistant director
Adam Somner	....	assistant director: second unit
Michael Stevenson	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Bruce Bigg	....	property master
Brian Bishop	....	scenic artist
Doug Bishop	....	assistant scenic artist
Alan Brooks	....	master carpenter
Colin Burgess	....	stand-by prop
Ray Campbell	....	stand-by painter
George Chambers	....	stand-by stagehand
Don Clayson	....	chargehand plasterer
George Coussins	....	chargehand carpenter
Peter Dorme	....	draughtsman
Stephen Eels	....	stand-by carpenter
Kavin Hall	....	master painter
Robert Harper	....	chargehand painter
Danny Hunter	....	chargehand stand-by prop
Bryce Johnston	....	chargehand carpenter (as Bryce Johnstone)
Paul Kirby	....	junior draughtsman
Pippa Marks	....	art department runner
Jim Morahan	....	assistant art director
Alf Newvell	....	chargehand rigger
Brian Read	....	production buyer
Michael Redding	....	construction coordinator
Ian Rolfe	....	stand-by rigger
Caroline Smith	....	stand-by art director
Ted Stickley	....	chargehand dressing prop
Peter Wallace	....	chargehand rigger
Brian Western	....	chargehand painter
Kenny Wilson	....	chargehand stagehand
Tony Wright	....	storyboard artist
Richard Lyon	....	construction storeman (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
John Bateman	....	adr mixer
John Bateman	....	footsteps mixer
Jonathan Bates	....	sound
Michael Crouch	....	dialogue editor
Keith Grant	....	sound recording engineer
Taffy Haines	....	sound maintenance
Kevin Holt	....	assistant footsteps editor
Peter Holt	....	footsteps editor
Dean Humphreys	....	sound mixer
Gerry Humphreys	....	sound
Simon Kaye	....	sound
Brian Mann	....	assistant sound editor
Tommy Staples	....	boom operator
Len Tremble	....	assistant dialogue editor

Efectos especiales
Chris Corbould	....	special effects supervisor
Brian Warner	....	senior special effects technician
Dave Crownshaw	....	snow effects technician (uncredited)
Steve Hamilton	....	senior special effects technician (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Binnall	....	clapper loader: second unit (as Robert Binnell)
Fred Brown	....	electrician
Eddie Collins	....	camera operator: second unit
Chuck Finch	....	gaffer
Stephen Finch	....	electrician (as Steve Finch)
Alan Grosch	....	electrician
Keith Hamshere	....	still photographer
Simon Hume	....	focus puller
Martin Kenzie	....	camera operator: second unit
Paddy Kiely	....	clapper loader
Colin Manning	....	grip
Billy Merrell	....	best boy
Nic Milner	....	focus puller: second unit
Gary Pocock	....	grip: second unit
Mike Roberts	....	camera operator (as Michael Roberts)
Tracy Satchwell-Smith	....	camera trainee
Toby Tyler	....	electrician
Chris Warren	....	video assist operator
Alan White	....	plate photographer and translites
Alan White	....	translite photographer
Darren Quinn	....	assistant grip (uncredited)

Casting Department
Amy Allen	....	casting assistant
Clare Moseley	....	crowd casting: Oxford

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kate Carin	....	assistant costume designer
Ken Crouch	....	wardrobe supervisor (as Kenny Crouch)
Kirsten Hecktermann	....	wardrobe mistress
Mark Holmes	....	wardrobe master

Editorial Department
Tullio Brunt	....	second assistant editor
Martin Corbett	....	cutting room assistant
Jeremy Hume	....	assistant editor
Peter Hunt	....	negative timer
Joe Parisella	....	colorist (uncredited)

Music Department
George Fenton	....	conductor
Kevin Lane	....	music editor
Eliza Thompson	....	music coordinator

Transportation Department
Vic Floyd	....	unit driver
Colin Morris	....	unit driver
Cecil O'Reilly	....	unit driver
Stanley Sirkin	....	unit driver
John Smith	....	unit driver
Ronald Straw	....	unit driver

Otros miembros del equipo
Gordon Arnell	....	unit publicist
David Boardman	....	location assistant
Nikki Clapp	....	script supervisor
Gabriel Clare-Hunt	....	production assistant: Richard Attenborough
Nick Daubeny	....	location manager (as Nicholas Daubeny)
Richard Dunmore	....	location manager
John Ensby	....	laboratory liaison
Barbra Flinder	....	title designer
Jo Gregory	....	financial controller
Nicki Gunning	....	production assistant: Brian Eastman
Grayston Ives	....	director: The Choir of Magdalen College Oxford
Leila Kirkpatrick	....	production coordinator
Jamice Medhurst	....	unit nurse
Zoe Moore	....	floor runner (as Zoë Moore)
Mark Somner	....	assistant location manager
Alan Steele	....	computer operator
Alexander Walker	....	location assistant: Oxford
Judy Wasdell	....	publicity assistant
Greg Waterfield	....	production runner
Ben Weston	....	location assistant: Oxford
Betty Williams	....	assistant accountant
Heide Wilsher	....	production assistant: Brian Eastman

Thanks
Peter Armstrong	....	thanks: legal services, Mishcon de Reya
Lindsay Conner	....	thanks: legal services, Hill Wynnn Troop & Meisinger
Kathy Goodman	....	thanks: legal services, Katten Muchin Zaris & Weitzman
Douglas Gresham	....	thanks
Alan Grodin	....	thanks: legal services, Cooper Epstein & Hurewitz
Philippe Hartmann	....	thanks: The Borough of Camden
Walter Hooper	....	thanks
Ellen Mirojnick	....	thanks
Jim Schreiber	....	thanks: legal services, Leonard Dicker & Schreiber
Barry Smith	....	thanks: legal services, Richards Butler
Malcolm Townsend	....	thanks: Thames Valley Police Oxford

Production Companies

• Price Entertainment
• Shadowlands Productions
• Spelling Films International

Distributors

• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• Savoy Pictures
• Spelling Films International
• Warner Bros. (Argentina)
• Warner Bros. (Spain)

Efectos especiales

• Computer Film Company, The (CFC) (tracking, compositing)
• Peerless Camera Company (digital effects)

Other Companies

• Shepperton Studios  movie studio
• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• Excasting  crowd casting: London
• First Unit Caterers  catering
• Lee Lighting  grip and lighting equipment
• Peerless Camera Company  opticals
• Sylvia Wheeler Film Services  negative cutting

También conocida como:

Tierra de sombras (Argentina) [es]
Tierras de penumbra (Spain) [es]

Duración:

131 min | Canada:115 min (Ontario)

País:

UK

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Ireland:G | Philippines:G | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-8 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:U | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Price Entertainment

Trivialidades:

Graham Sinclair (uncredited) is the voice of the taxi driver in the country.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Both the picture of the Golden Valley hanging in Jack's study, and the actual vista Jack and Joy find on their honeymoon are in fact the view of the Wye Valley from Symonds Yat - as the woman in the hotel says, the Golden Valley is that of the River Dore.

Quotes:

Joy: Jack, don't you sometimes just bust to share the joke? Here's your friends thinking we're unmarried and up to all sorts of wickedness, when all along we're married and up to nothing at all.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Deadly Bees (#10.5)" (1998)

Dewy-eyed, but not all wet

Romanticized true account of British writer C.S. Lewis and his timid, awkward friendship and eventual marriage to American poet Joy Gresham, a feisty divorcée with a young son. After a flat, numbing first-half, "Shadowlands" gets a bit pacier, becoming a moving (if rather saintly) look at old-fashioned feelings and true love. Anthony Hopkins, playing Lewis, doesn't seem quite into this role (his performance consists mainly of faraway glances and noble little smiles), but Debra Winger comes through with a strong characterization. Overall, the film is just so-so, beautifully filmed and obviously made with care, but missing that hearty ingredient which might've made it a romantic classic. Factual story was first produced for British television in 1985 and starred Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom; writer William Nicholson penned both versions, as well as a play under the same title. **1/2 from ****