Synopsis
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.
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Cast
- Stephen HawkingSelf
- Isobel HawkingSelf - Stephen Hawking's Mother
- Janet HumphreySelf - Stephen Hawking's Aunt
- Mary HawkingSelf - Stephen Hawking's Sister
- Basil KingSelf - Childhood Friend
- Derek PowneySelf - Oxford Classmate
- Norman Dix
- Robert BermanSelf - Stephen Hawking's Tutor
- Gordon Berry
- Roger Penrose
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
The beauty of Morris' achievement is the way he fuses Hawking's work in theoretical physics with his subject's life history -- finding subtle connections between the two, and avoiding the pat, predictable structure of biographical film. [28 Aug 1992, p.C3] - 90
Los Angeles Times
A film that is genuinely mind-expanding, an exhilarating intellectual gantlet that tells a remarkable human story. - 88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Hawking is as much a phenomenon as the phenomena he explores. Knowing that, A Brief History Of Time has the deceptive simplicity of an elegant equation - it merely sets up the parallels and permits us to wonder, gazing upon the heavens above and the mysteries within. [28 Aug 1992] - 80
The Dissolve
Morris’ film does everything it can to make Hawking’s thinking accessible to a wider audience, and reveal how A Brief History Of Time is as much its author’s story as it is the story of the universe. - 80
The New York Times
A Brief History of Time is a kind of adventure that seldom reaches the screen, and it's a tonic. - 75
Washington Post
To watch "Time" is not merely to marvel at the heavens we cannot yet know; it is also to admire Hawking, now 50, for approaching such daunting problems on a daily basis, despite every possible problem the cosmos can throw at him. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Slickly executed and dramatically engaging. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Directed by the ingenious documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line), A Brief History of Time held out the promise of being an audacious, brain-bending experience. Instead, it's plodding and disappointingly conventional.
