She has to negotiate the clouded waters of university politics, the annual dinners of the college head, the curiosity and pointed questions of his nosy colleagues. He is so terrified of marriage that he has to couch his proposal in "practical" terms - if he marries her, she will not be forced to leave Britain. He issues invitations lamely, as if sure she will not accept. It's more that he discovers he cannot imagine her going away. She sees at a glance the comfortable rut he is in - the dinners at his college dining hall, the evenings in front of the fire, reading while the wireless provides classical music from the BBC. She is more direct, an outspoken woman who sometimes surprises him by saying out loud what they have both been thinking, but that he would never have said. He is shy sometimes to the point of being tongue-tied he nods and hems and haws and looks away, and retreats behind formulas of courtesy. "Shadowlands" has found two perfect actors to play this unlikely couple, Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.
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