Infinity (film)

Infinity
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Directed by	Matthew Broderick
Produced by	Matthew Broderick Patricia Broderick Michael Leahy Joel Soisson
Screenplay by	Patricia Broderick
Based on	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?  by Richard Feynman Ralph Leighton
Starring	Matthew Broderick Patricia Arquette Peter Riegert
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Cinematography	Toyomichi Kurita
Editing by	Bill Johnson
Distributed by	First Look Pictures
Release dates	October 4, 1996
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$195,170[1]

Infinity is a 1996 American biographical drama film about the early life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was played by Matthew Broderick, who also directed and produced the film. Broderick's mother, Patricia Broderick, wrote the screenplay, which was based on the books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, both written by Feynman and Ralph Leighton.

Plot

The film follows the book What Do You Care What Other People Think? fairly closely in terms of the stories told.

The film starts in 1924 with Richard and his father Melville walking through the woods where Melville shows his scientific inspiration for Richard. In 1934, Richard & Arline are in high school and their romantic relationship starts. The story then jumps to his college years and Arline getting sick with lymphatic tuberculosis. It continues to his move west to Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where Arline follows him later to a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she dies. The film ends with Feynman crying at the sight of the red dress Arline had pointed out.

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