Not exact matches
While it doesn't ask the kind of deep, difficult spiritual questions that something like
Shadowlands does, nor does it shy away from demonstrating the problems that come from such devotion, whether it be Eric's quarrels
with Jennie about missionary work or his refusal to run on the Sabbath.
But like
Shadowlands, it isn't hard to get beyond or forgive the stagey qualities of The Odd Couple once we have gotten on board
with the characters and begun to laugh (or cry).
The
Shadowlands expansion introduces a whole new quasi-metaphysical world to explore, along
with two extra professions.
William Nicholson (
Shadowlands, Gladiator) gets credit for the screenplay along
with Herbert Kretzmer, who transformed Boublil's original French lyrics into the now - familiar English ones.
In others,
with recent events being what they have been, it just seems right that the movie version, directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl),
with a screenplay by William Nicholson (
Shadowlands, Gladiator), is hitting screens now.
Coming to terms
with the death of a loved one is also the theme of the film
Shadowlands (which is a biography of C.S. Lewis — author of the Narnia books.)
But many readers will have already heard of poet and writer Joy Davidman, author of Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, and whose life
with C.S. Lewis was dramatized in a television BBC film, stage play and theatrical film titled
Shadowlands.