History Film / Shadowlands

%%* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Jack and Joy.

* Main/Irony:

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with a film of the same name (which also covered Lewis' relationship with his wife) from 1985, or the 2020 ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' expansion.

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with a film of the same name (that covered Lewis' relationship with his wife) from 1985 or the 2020 ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' expansion.

* SpotOfTea: Joy and Jack (with Warnie) meet for the first time for tea at a hotel. See Culture Clash above for how she finds him.

* AdultFear: Losing the person you love to a slow painful death by cancer. Just to twist the knife more, Lewis's own mother had died the same way when he was a boy, so he is all too aware of the effect it must be having on his stepson.

* [[Irony]]:

* Irony:

* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Shadowlands'' began as a made-for-TV movie before being adapted to the stage, and the stage play was then adapted to the big screen.
* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Jack and Joy

* ArtisticLiscenceHistory:

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jack's fellow academic Christopher Riley is a loose stand-in CompositeCharacter for the rest of UsefulNotes/TheInklings, his social circle of creative minds including Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CharlesWilliams and others, who all do not appear as themselves. His given name might even be a reference to J. R. R.'s son Christopher, who eventually became a young member of the circle.

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with a film of the same name (that covered Lewis' relationship with his wife) from 1985 or the 2020 ''VideoGames/WorldOfWarcraft'' expansion.

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with a film of the same name (that covered Lewis' relationship with his wife) from 1985.

''Shadowlands'' is a 1993 drama film directed by Creator/RichardAttenborough, starring Creator/AnthonyHopkins and Debra Winger. It was adapted from the 1985 teleplay starring Joss Ackland and subsequent stage play of the same name starring Creator/NigelHawthorne by William Nicholson.

* DecemberDecemberRomance: Both Jack and Joy are at least a bit past middle age.

* StiffUpperLip: Jack's book about "why bad things happen to good people" is intellectual and unemotional, saying God works InMysteriousWays. After Joy's death, he revises his story, more or less saying it's okay to grieve.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jack's fellow academic Christopher Riley is a loose stand-in CompositeCharacter for the rest of UsefulNotes/TheInklings, his social circle of creative minds including Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CharlesWilliams and others, who all do not appear as themselves.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jack's fellow academic Christopher Riley is a loose stand-in on the rest of Creator/TheInklings, his social circle of creative minds including Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CharlesWillaims and others, who all do not appear as themselves.

* WidowedAtTheWedding: Both Jack and Joy think this is going to happen, but then Joy's cancer goes into remission.

''Shadowlands'' is a 1993 drama film directed by Creator/RichardAttenborough, starring Creator/AnthonyHopkins and Debra Winger. It was adapted from the 1985 teleplay starring Joss Ackland and subsequent stage play of the same name starring Creator/Nigelhawthorne by William Nicholson.

''Shadowlands'' is a 1993 drama film directed by Creator/RichardAttenborough, starring Creator/AnthonyHopkins and Debra Winger. It was adapted from the 1985 television movie and subsequent stage play of the same name by William Nicholson.

* {{Oxbridge}}: Jack is an Oxford don, and much of the film takes place there.[[note]]Lewis actually held positions at Oxford and Cambridge, and in real life, he was a professor at Cambridge at the time of his marriage to Joy.[[/note]]

* StiffUpperLip: Jack's book about "why bad things happen to good people" is intellectual and unemotional, saying God works in mysterious ways. After Joy's death, he revises his story, more or less saying it's okay to grieve.