A brilliant mind grapples with a debilitating illness, finding profound love and scientific breakthroughs.
Intimate and melancholy. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating. Based on a book.
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Nothing past what a PG-13 promises: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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