This is also a religious film as C.S. Lewis wrote to an American girl about his book, it is about the “restoration of the true religion after corruption.” You can find more of Clive Staples Lewis’s beliefs in his works, biographies, and the film, “Shadowlands.”

While a little slow in unfolding in today’s world of smash cuts, increasingly shorter and shorter attention spans, and answering one’s cell phone numerous times while unabashedly disturbing others in movie theaters, this film is stirring in its messages of courage, friendship, family, and faith that is needed by so many in today’s troubled world.