Plot: In early-1960s Cambridge, the cosmology student, Stephen Hawking, meets the medieval Spanish poetry student, Jane Hawking; two kindred spirits with a mutual curiosity for each other. Sadly, however, with the world at the feet of the two young dreamers, at the age of twenty-one, then comes Hawking's dreadful diagnosis with ALS: an incurable, progressive degenerative motor-neuron disease. In the wake of this terrible news, with the doctors giving Stephen only a couple of years to live, determined and loyal Jane storms into his life, marries him, and eventually, they have three children together. But, as Hawking's physical decline is steadily weakening his frail body, on the other hand, his mind remains sharp, always in pursuit of that single equation that could explain the elusive "Theory of Everything". Up until now, Stephen Hawking, who is in his mid-seventies, has no plans to retire, trying tirelessly to prove his theory.
Alternative Plot: In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with fellow collegian Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). At 21, Hawking learns that he has motor neuron disease. Despite this -- and with Jane at his side -- he begins an ambitious study of time, of which he has very little left, according to his doctor. He and Jane defy terrible odds and break new ground in the fields of medicine and science, achieving more than either could hope to imagine.
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