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One man’s journey to faith makes for moving viewing.
This 2021 film was made by the Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA), in association with British-based 1A Productions. The film traces the spiritual journey from unbelief to faith of British academic C.S. Lewis, who was also the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series. The Most Reluctant Convert is based upon his memoir, Surprised by Joy (1955), in which he wrote: “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
Originally, The Most Reluctant Convert was planned to be screened in cinemas across the United States for one night only, on Nov. 3, 2021. However, the movie garnered more than $1.2 million in box-office sales on that day alone, capturing the highest per-screen average, and performing second overall to all other films then released (behind only the latest blockbuster, Dune). These strong box-office results prompted the addition of theaters and dates, with multiple daily showings enabling audiences to see this biopic on the big screen. In addition, The Most Reluctant Convert was released as a special event in cinemas throughout the United Kingdom and Canada. The film has also been released digitally onto Apple TV and Google Play, as well as physically on Blu-ray and DVD.
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This 2021 film was made by the Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA), in association with British-based 1A Productions. The film traces the spiritual journey from unbelief to faith of British academic C.S. Lewis, who was also the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series. The Most Reluctant Convert is based upon his memoir, Surprised by Joy (1955), in which he wrote: “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
Originally, The Most Reluctant Convert was planned to be screened in cinemas across the United States for one night only, on Nov. 3, 2021. However, the movie garnered more than $1.2 million in box-office sales on that day alone, capturing the highest per-screen average, and performing second overall to all other films then released (behind only the latest blockbuster, Dune). These strong box-office results prompted the addition of theaters and dates, with multiple daily showings enabling audiences to see this biopic on the big screen. In addition, The Most Reluctant Convert was released as a special event in cinemas throughout the United Kingdom and Canada. The film has also been released digitally onto Apple TV and Google Play, as well as physically on Blu-ray and DVD.
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C.S. Lewis, ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’
One man’s journey to faith makes for moving viewing.
