Creation | |
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Directed by | Jon Amiel |
Screenplay by | John Collee |
Based on | Annie's Box by Randal Keynes |
Produced by | Jeremy Thomas |
Starring | Paul Bettany Jennifer Connelly Jeremy Northam Toby Jones Benedict Cumberbatch Jim Carter Bill Paterson Martha West |
Cinematography | Jess Hall |
Edited by | Melanie Oliver |
Music by | Christopher Young |
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Distributed by | Icon Film Distribution |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | GBP 10,000,000 (est.)[2] |
Box office | USD 2,058,675 (worldwide)[3] |
Creation is a 2009 British biographical drama film about Charles Darwin's relationship with his wife Emma and his memory of their eldest daughter Annie, as he struggles to write On the Origin of Species. The film, directed by Jon Amiel and starring real life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin, is a somewhat fictionalised account based on Randal Keynes's Darwin biography Annie's Box.