Creation is a partly biographical, partly fictionalised account of Charles Darwin's time aboard HMS Beagle and of the interaction between himself, his family and his professional interests in his middle age. It is directed by Jon Amiel and stars married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin. John Collee wrote the script based on Randal Keynes's biography of Darwin titled Annie's Box.
Following the death of his eldes...
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Creation is a partly biographical, partly fictionalised account of Charles Darwin's time aboard HMS Beagle and of the interaction between himself, his family and his professional interests in his middle age. It is directed by Jon Amiel and stars married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin. John Collee wrote the script based on Randal Keynes's biography of Darwin titled Annie's Box.
Following the death of his eldest daughter Annie in 1851, English naturalist Charles Darwin has a crisis of faith. Having returned from his expedition in the Galapagos Islands fifteen years earlier he has yet to compile his findings from his notebooks.
Darwin has an unshakeable illness and cannot write, though his friends Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Henry Huxley encourage him to finish his book having read his 230 page synopsis. Darwin's depression is also the cause of a rift with his wife, Emma, whose devout faith contrasts with Darwin's own loss of faith. Darwin...
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