Classic Movie: “Shadowlands”

On select Mondays during the summer, Orchestra Hall will feature a free classic movie at 7:30 p.m. This week’s movie is “Shadowlands” starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. (PG, 131 mins)

C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), the renowned author of The Chronicles of Narnia series, is a bachelor and Oxford University professor who spends his free time debating with fellow academics at a pub. Although he seems entirely uninterested in love, Lewis agrees to marry Joy Gresham (Debra Winger), an American writer who is looking to secure British citizenship. Their arrangement soon becomes a romance, and when Joy is diagnosed with terminal cancer, their bond grows even stronger.