Shadowlands

Shadowlands (1993)

Timing: 2:11 (131 min)

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Release date

1993-12-25

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Price Entertainment, Savoy Pictures, Spelling Films International, Shadowlands Productions

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$22 000 000

Revenue

$25 842 377

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Director

Richard Attenborough

Actors

Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, John Wood, Michael Denison, Peter Firth, Matthew Delamere, Julian Fellowes, Julian Firth, Robert Flemyng
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Scenario

Producer

Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman, Terence A. Clegg

Operator

Roger Pratt

Composer

George Fenton

Artist

Jim Morahan

Audition

Lucy Boulting

Editing

Lesley Walker
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• Sir Anthony Hopkins preferred to learn his lines independently, while Debra Winger required rehearsals on set for this purpose. The film's producer and director, Richard Attenborough (1923-2014), rehearsed with Winger, reading Hopkins' lines from a script.
• Scenes of traditional May Day celebrations in Oxford were genuinely filmed on the night of April 30th to May 1st and early in the morning of May 1st, 1993. A real choir was filmed on the tower (although not in full strength, as space was also needed for several crew members and filming equipment). The long shots of people below and on boats on the river were spoiled by descending fog, so the extras had to be called back for reshoots a week later.
• Students and faculty of Magdalen College, Oxford, objected to restrictions on movement around the campus in April and May 1993, particularly as the imposition of these restrictions coincided with end-of-year exams. To prevent the students from disrupting filming, a meet-and-greet evening with the film's creative team was arranged for them at a local bar, attended by Attenborough, Hopkins, and Michael Denison (1915-1998).