History Film / TheTheoryOfEverything

* [[spoiler:AmicableExes: Stephen and Jane in the end.]]

* DaydreamSurprise: Stephen gets up out of his chair and retrieves a student's dropped pen, deliberately confusing the audience until it becomes clear that it was only a daydream - he's still in his chair on stage.

* {{TriangRelations}}: Stephen, Jane and Jonathan form a Type 8. Things later get more complicated.

* AdultFear:
** Imagine being the top doctoral student in physics, BrilliantButLazy and a hit with the ladies, only to find out you are diagnosed with an incurable disease named after a ballplayer. That was Stephen Hawking's situation.
** You just find out that the man you love is diagnosed with ALS, and you have committed to marrying him and becoming TheCaretaker. At first it seems you can have a semi-normal life, with two kids and only having to move the bed downstairs. Then it goes FromBadToWorse when the kids get unruly, your husband is harder to take care of, and you can't focus on your own work; you can't afford paid help, and then you get MistakenForCheating when a widowed choirmaster starts helping.

* FromBadToWorse: Stephen's condition is incurable, and his body continues to break down from ALS. It culminates in him needing [[spoiler: a tracheotomy, which deprives him of his ability to speak.]]

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* {{Adorkable}}: Young Stephen Hawking. It's to be expected.

** Done by the Russian professor when commenting on Hawking's speech at the auditorium: "I came here today expecting to hear a lot of nonsense. I go home disappointed. The little one here ... has done it!

''The Theory of Everything'' is a 2014 {{Biopic}} about the life of Professor Creator/StephenHawking, from his years as a student at Cambridge to his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to the publishing of his book, ''A Brief History of Time''. It is based on the book, ''Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen'' written by Stephen's first wife Jane Wilde Hawking who is played by Creator/FelicityJones in the film.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Felicity Jones is way more attractive than Hawking's first wife Jane in real life. Eddie Redmayne is also ''much'' nicer to look at than Stephen.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Naturally. It's a film about Stephen Hawking as he overcomes his body getting weaker and weaker from ALS.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Stephen is told he has 2 years to live. He eventually passed away in 2018, over 50 years later.

* AsHimself: After seeing the film, Stephen Hawking loved the film so much he allowed them to use his actual computerized voice.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Stephen is told he has 2 years to live. He is still alive, more than 4 decades later.

** Jane tends to do this when she's with her eventual husband Stephen Hawking, who reciprocates (at first, but eventually loses the ability to do that), [[spoiler:as does his second wife, Elaine]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: After his [[spoiler: tracheotomy that Jane ordered to save his life, Stephen]] can no longer speak. Jane tries to communicate with him via colored letters, but she can't understand him. [[spoiler: This is the beginning of their end, especially since the live-in nurse they hire can understand him better.]]

''The Theory of Everything'' is a 2014 {{Biopic}} about the life of Professor Creator/StephenHawking, from his years as a student at Cambridge to his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to the publishing of his book, ''A Brief History of Time''. It is based on the book, ''Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen'' written by Stephen's first wife Jane Wilde Hawking who is played by Felicity Jones in the film.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Felicity Jones is way more attractive than Hawking's first wife Jane in real life.

The film garnered much praise, most directed to Eddie Redmayne's performance as Stephen which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: At the end, an intertitle informs of what Hawkings and his wife are up to currently.

* HeyItsThatGuy: David Thewlis ([[HarryPotter Remus Lupin]]) plays Dennis W. Sciama.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene (blurish yellow) is disorienting and we don't exactly see what is going on. In the final moments of the movie we learn that this scene played out in the lobby before Hawking got his CBE honors by the Queen.