'Powerful' biopic featuring 'moving' performance from Harry Potter star will have fans in tears

A “moving” Oscar Award-winning biopic can now be enjoyed at the click of a button, 11 years after its initial release.

The Theory of Everything takes a deep dive into the life and work of modern-day genius Stephen Hawking who, from a very young age, had unprecedented success in the fields of physics.

Despite suffering from Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 21, Hawking continued to defeat the odds with the 2014 film not only focussing on his career but his turbulent relationship with his wife Jane.

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Actor Eddie Redmayne, who is renowned for starring in Les Miserables, Harry Potter ’s Fantastic Beasts franchise and The Danish Girl, stars as Hawking himself and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2015.

He stars opposite actress Felicity Jones as Hawking’s wife Jane, with the 41-year-old also remembered for her roles in The Brutalist, On The Basis of Sex, Inferno and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Eleven years after it made its global debut, The Theory of Everything can now be watched for free.

Redmayne and Jones’ The Theory of Everything has been dropped on BBC iPlayer today, Monday, August 18, and is entirely free to watch.

The only thing needed to get access to the streamer is a registered email address and fans are good to go.

The award-winning biopic scored an impressive 81% on Rotten Tomatoes when it first came out with fans singing the stars’ praises.

Posting on the review aggregator, someone commented: “Redmayne's physical performance astounds, and Jones makes a wonderfully empathetic female lead.”

Another agreed: “Jones and Redmayne give this study of a scientific mind something special - heart.”

A third remarked: “It seems that The Theory of Everything doesn't have to theorize as much to prove that Eddie Redmayne is staging, perhaps, one of the best performances of the year.”

While another added: “The Theory of Everything is an interesting story about a genius, but it will be the performances by Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones that will stay with you.”

The Theory of Everything is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer.