On November 3, 2021, for one night only, cinemas nationwide will carry the new movie, “The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C. S. Lewis.”
You can look for the availability of the film and tickets in your area here.
An elder C.S. Lewis looks back on his remarkable journey from hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Christian writer of the past century.
The Most Reluctant Convert features award-winning actor Max McLean as the older Lewis and Nicholas Ralph—breakout star of PBS Masterpiece’s All Creatures Great and Small—as young Lewis. Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford, this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief.
Written for the screen and directed by two-time Emmy and BAFTA winner Norman Stone (BBC’s Shadowlands), The Most Reluctant Convert brings to life the spiritual evolution of one the 20th century’s sharpest minds and keenest wits.
To read about this time period in Lewis’s life, see the first two volumes of Harry Lee Poe’s trilogy:
- Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898–1918) (Crossway, 2019)
- The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945) (Crossway, 2021).
