The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis

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.

Cast

Max McLean

as C.S. Lewis

Nicholas Ralph

as Young C.S. Lewis

Eddie Ray Martin

as Childhood C.S. Lewis

Richard Harrington

as Albert Lewis

Amy Alexander

as Flora Lewis

Tom Glenister

as J.R.R. Tolkien

David Shields

as Hugo Dyson

Hubert Burton

as Owen Barfield

David Gant

as W.T. Kirkpatrick

Sandy Knight

as Louisa Kirkpatrick

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Delivered by way of an over-arching monologue, Max McLean, Nicholas Ralph and Eddie Ray Martin take us on a well written and delivered exploration of this author as he grows up and evolves from a hardened man of no faith through his gradual acceptance of the premiss of deism, then ultimately of the ...

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