Movie: "A Brief History of Time"

Release Date: Oct 1991 Genres: Biography / Documentary Runtime: 80 min Cast: Isobel Hawking (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Mother), Stephen Hawking (Himself) Janet Humphrey (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Aunt) Mary Hawking (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Sister) Basil King (Himself - Hawking Family Neighbor) Derek Powney (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford) Norman Dix (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford) Robert Berman (Himself - Hawking Tutor at Oxford) Gordon Berry (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford) Roger Penrose (Himself - Professor at Cambridge) Dennis Sciama (Himself - Professor at Cambridge) John Wheeler (Himself - Astrophysicist) Brandon Carter (Himself - Astrophysicist) John Taylor (Himself - Astrophysicist) Kip Thorne (Himself - Research Scientist at...)

Storyline

Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.