The Theory of Everything aired November 26th 2014, and stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, and Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking. This movie is based on the book that Jane had written called Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, which dictates how life was when Hawking got ALS, and the consequences to their relationship.
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS in 1963, at age 21. He had experienced extreme clumsiness in his final year at Oxford, and when he returned home, his parents had a doctor check on him, and that's when they discovered he has the disease, which at the time they called motor neuron disease. He was given 2 years to live, and at 72, he has beaten the odds.
The movie continues from the point of his diagnosis to his marriage of Jane and his children, showed the progression of his disease, and his discovery of the Big Bang Theory and the Big Crunch, two major theories used in physics today.
Overall, I think that this movie was absolutely amazing from the filming, acting (Redmayne better get an Oscar for his portrayal) and the feeling that it left you with when it was over. It ended as it had begun, and I highly recommend it. Stephen Hawking himself loved the film, and they got permission to use his actual computerized voice for when Redmayne had gotten to that point in the disease. I would give this movie a 10/10 for its sheer brilliance.
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