Stephen Hawking and The Theory of Everything (2009)

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes, its author, Stephen Hawking, concedes that the "ultimate theory" he'd believed to be imminent - which would conclusively explain the origins of life, the universe and everything - remains frustratingly elusive. Yet despite his failing health and the seeming impossibility of the task, Hawking is still devoted to his work; an extraordinary drive that's captured here in fleeting interview snippets and footage of the scientist sharing a microwave dinner with some fawning PhD students. Though the pop-science tutorials that dapple the first of this two-part biography are winningly perky, Hawking, alas, remains as tricky to fathom as his boggling quantum whatnots

Released March 24, 2009 90 min 11+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.scientific-study, tmdb.physics, tmdb.physicist, mdblist.two-actors, mdblist.imdb-video

Country: United States
Production Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English, Italian