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22/12/2023 Drama 1h 49m
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September 3, 1939. The world is on the brink. A monumental session with two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century over the future of mankind and the existence of God.

Overview

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

  1. Matt Brown

    Director

  2. Mark St. Germain

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Anthony Hopkins

    Sigmund Freud

  2. Matthew Goode

    C. S. Lewis

  3. Liv Lisa Fries

    Anna Freud

  4. Jodi Balfour

    Dorothy Burlingham

  5. Jeremy Northam

    Ernest Jones

  6. Stephen Campbell Moore

    J. R. R. Tolkien

  7. Orla Brady

    Janie Moore

  8. David Shields

    Weldon

  9. Tarek Bishara

    Jacob Freud

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-06-18
Though there is no evidence that this meeting ever actually happened, it does make for quite an intriguing premise. Renowned, but ailing, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony Hopkins) invites Oxford University professor C.S. "Jack" Lewis (Matthew Goode) for a conversation. The latter man is late which irks his host, especially when his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) has to leave him to go to work and he is running out of the medicine (morphine) that he uses to control the pain from his advancing mouth cancer. Initially slated for the shortest of chats, the two men - who take completely opp...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$1,697,993.00

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