Creation (2009 film)
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| Directed by | Jon Amiel |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas |
| Screenplay by | John Collee |
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Annie's Box by Randal Keynes |
| Starring |
Paul Bettany Jennifer Connelly |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Cinematography | Jess Hall |
| Edited by | Melanie Oliver |
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| Distributed by | Icon Film Distribution (UK) |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | GBP 10,000,000 (est.) |
| Box office | USD 896,298 (worldwide) |
Creation is a 2009 British biographical drama film about Charles Darwin's relationship with his wife Emma and his memory of their eldest daughter Annie, as he struggles to write On the Origin of Species. The film, directed by Jon Amiel and starring real life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin, is a partly biographical, partly fictionalised account, based on Randal Keynes's Darwin biography Annie's Box.
British naturalist Charles Darwin is a young father who lives a quiet life in an idyllic village. He is a brilliant and deeply emotional man, devoted to his wife and children. Darwin is especially fond of his eldest daughter Annie, a precocious and inquisitive ten-year-old. He teaches her much about nature and science, including his theory of evolution, and tells her stories of his travels. Her favourite story, despite the sad ending, is about the young orangutan Jenny, who is brought from Borneo to the London Zoo, where she finally died of pneumonia in the arms of her keeper. Darwin is furious when he learns that the family clergyman has made Annie kneel on rock salt as punishment for contradicting him about dinosaurs, as their existence and extinction contradicts the church's position that life is unchanging and that the Earth is very young.
Having returned from his expedition in the Galapagos Islands 15 years earlier, Darwin is still trying to finish a manuscript about his findings, which will substantiate his theory of evolution. The delay is caused by anxiety about his relationship with his devoutly religious wife, Emma, who fundamentally opposes his ideas and understands the apparent threat to their religion that his work poses. Emma worries that she may go to heaven and he may not, separating them for eternity.
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