CS Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert

2022 • 73 minutes

About this movie

A new film tracing the spiritual journey of renowned author of The Chronicles of Narnia, released in theatres to international acclaims on Nov. 3, 2021 Directed by double Emmy and double BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Norman Stone (BBC's Shadowlands, The Narnia Code), the biopic stars acclaimed theatre actor Max McLean as a middle-aged Lewis looking back on the events that moved him from vigorous debunker of Christianity to become the most influential Christian writer of the past century. Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece hit All Creatures Great and Small, plays Lewis as a young man who has a terrible relationship with his father and goes off to the trenches in the Great War before becoming a professor at Oxford University. The film introduces Eddie Ray Martin as the childhood Lewis, who loses his mother to cancer and then renounces his faith. The Most Reluctant Convert explores the impact friends such as J.R.R. Tolkien (played by Tom Glenister)

Ratings and reviews

A different approach to narrate a story, coherent to how the main character would have done it and expressed himself in real life.