Benedito Dias Rodrigues As movie is very weak dramatization,centered around his family,in several flashbacks about your travell,meetings and some facts less interesting,in fact this picture is portrait of home,in confined days when Darwin was pretty worry about your book could be after published,the storm probable will be destroy all family and unfortunatelly the picture ends exactly when the book come out,Henry Ian Cusick is miscasting he don't looks like with character at all.Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5

briangifford-95409 This film provides a glimpse into the life and times of Charles Darwin just before publishing Origin of the Species. His wife's intelligent, principled role, his children's' engagement in science and learning as well as tragic illness, the struggle with ethical questions related to attribution ("intellectual property rights" within the scientific world). It provides the basic reasoning & observations behind the theory and the fascinating context - especially recent discoveries about geological forces and time scale. A revolution in our understanding of the world all taking place in one short century. Pretty exciting! Filmed in beautiful Nova Scotia where I live (a pleasant surprise) - including local actors & sites. (Ironically the film tax credit that brought the filming here was drastically changed April 9 2015, 3 days before we watched the film, leaving the future of film-making in NS in doubt).

Jay Harris Henry Ian Cusack & Frances O'Connor are Charles & Emma Darwin. John Bradshow directed John Goldsmith's weak & ultimately dull script about Charles Darwin at a troubled time in this families life. Another anthropologist published an article similar to his yet unpublished famous book on evolution. At the same time there is serious illness in his family.We also see some excellent scenes of animal life when he was exploring in the Beagle.The above comes over as quite dull. Husband & wife talk & talk & remember exactly what they said a few years back.My rating is higher than it should be because the scenery & settings are so beautiful.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 74 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)

jeffery2010 This is a well crafted story about the dilemma faced by Charles Darwin when he receives a letter from Russell Wallace that almost spells out the theory of Evolution from Natural Selection. Darwin has been working on this theory for some 20 years and now he holds a letter that could usurp his primacy should he forward it on. The show then follows his conversations with his wife as he discusses what he should do, and the events that shaped his formation of the theory. This is also a drama that touches on the current health troubles in his family and the effect the death a few years before of his beloved daughter Annie had on him. This is an excellent production, the performances are solid, and the art direction,sets, and costumes are wonderful. The only complaint was the contrivance of having Darwin spell everything out to his wife (who would have know 90% of it already) for our benefit. But this is also a quiet drama of his family life so cutting between that and him talking to... a reporter(?)would have been jarring. They could have done the whole thing in flashbacks from a time after publication, but what they did here ultimately does work, as we watch an honorable man do the right thing.