Pro-Darwin ‘Creation’ Movie to Open Toronto Film Fest

(September 6, 2009) This article for the Christian Post by Josh Kimball sheds some light on a new film making its way through the festival circuit right now.

(EXCERPT) The movie, which also stars American actress Jennifer Connelly as Darwin’s wife, reveals Darwin as a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death and torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own “growing belief in a world where God has no place,” according to the film’s synopsis.

“Whether it be the levels of family and life at that time and what that constitutes in both in the death of a daughter and how a family struggles to cope with that to the big debate of the day and the discovery that Darwin made in his work – that has a massively huge audience,” said Cumberbatch, who stars in the movie as Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the founders of geographical botany and Darwin’s closest friend.

“You’ve got a film that is a very intimate biographical portrait of a man and that’s a rich and beautiful and informing celebration of his life,” he added.

The film is currently set to release in U.K. cinemas on Sept. 25 and to make its European premiere at The Curzon Mayfair cinema next Sunday, Sept. 13. A U.S. release date has not yet been set.

The full article can be read at ChristianPost.com HERE.

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