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A Brief History of Time
Directed by
Errol Morris
G
1991
80m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.3
95%
81%
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Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.
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Cast of A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Self / Writer
Isobel Hawking
Self - Stephen Hawking's Mother
Janet Humphrey
Self - Stephen Hawking's Aunt
Mary Hawking
Self - Stephen Hawking's Sister
Basil King
Self - Childhood Friend
Derek Powney
Self - Oxford Classmate
Norman Dix
Robert Berman
Self - Stephen Hawking's Tutor
Gordon Berry
Roger Penrose
Dennis Sciama
John Archibald Wheeler
Brandon Carter
John R. Taylor
Kip Thorne
Don Page
Christopher Isham
Brian Whitt
Raymond Laflamme
Errol Morris
Director
David Hickman
Producer
A Brief History of Time Ratings & Reviews
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Jordan M. Smith
It is indeed a narratively dryer, visually weaker film than it's predecessor, nor as straight up strange as the two that preceded that, but on its own there is plenty to love.
Hartford Courant
Malcolm Johnson
A Brief History delivers a clear, often fascinating precis on the investigations and beliefs of one of the world's leading scientific theorists. Yet Morris is too shrewd a documentarian to miss the drama of Hawking's life.
Newsweek
David Ansen
A Brief History of Time is an elegant, inspirational and mysterious movie. Morris turns abstract ideas into haunting images, and keeps them spinning in the air with the finesse, and playfulness, of a master juggler.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Few of us can judge Hawking's intellect, but any of us can sense that fire, that insistence of self on self.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
Morris. Hawking. Two of my favorite artists together. It couldn't miss, and it didn't.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
[The film has] a sophisticated agenda that's more about association than data or personal trivia, and Morris' philosophy takes it to places a conventional documentary could never go.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
A really fun ride.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's accessible, informative and entertaining.
Needcoffee.com
Widgett Walls
A capable documentary, but the title's misleading. It's more about Hawking himself than the book this docu takes its name from.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I'm pleased I saw the film, such as it is, but it doesn't do justice to Hawking's genius or to Morris' own genius, and I was left with the question of whether even Morris had ever finished the book.
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