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6.7/10   430 votes
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Director:
Mick Jackson
Writers:
William Nicholson (writer)
James Watson (book)
Contact:
View company contact information for The Race for the Double Helix on IMDbPro.
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Francis Crick's comments more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeff Goldblum ... Jim Watson
Tim Pigott-Smith ... Francis Crick
Alan Howard ... Maurice Wilkins

Juliet Stevenson ... Rosalind Franklin
Betsy Brantley ... Elizabeth Watson
John Moreno ... Vittorio Luzzati
Daniel André Pageon ... First Colleague
Yves Aubert ... Second Colleague
Anthony Benson ... J.T. Randall
Clive Panto ... Max Perutz
Rupert Massey ... John Kendrew
Geoffrey Chater ... Sir Lawrence Bragg
Nicholas Fry ... Raymond Gosling
Tom McCabe ... Bill Seeds
Petronella Ford ... Odile Crick
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Double Helix
The Race for the Double Helix (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:97 min
Country:
USA | UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Was originally shown as a "Horizon special" on the BBC, Horizon being the name of BBC2's main science programme. more
Quotes:
Jim Watson: This is off the map, someone has to guess right. Chapter one, page one: Once upon a time life reproduced life - the secret of creation, worth the Nobel Prize. more
Soundtrack:
Grande Chorale more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Francis Crick's comments, 1 September 2005
10/10
Author: johnmcc150 from United Kingdom

The late Francis Crick said: "In spite of the intention to soft pedal the science, a surprisingly large amount has been included... It is obviously unfair to criticise the BBC for not achieving complete accuracy... What Life Story was trying to do was to get over the general nature of the discovery and how it was received... The ending was distorted to make a theatrical climax whereas Watson & I were worried that it might all be wrong and we had again made fools of ourselves...I think Jeff Goldblum is too manic as Jim Watson and far too interested in girls... Mick Jackson complained to me that no-one had told him that Jim didn't chew gum...Jim's natural manner was more subdued. Goldblum caught it rather well in the costume party scene when he is asked whether he is a real vicar. His American questioner quizzed him for half an hour about the upbringing of her children and was rather cross when she eventually discovered he was not a vicar at all... The other actors were all immediately recognisable as the people they portrayed... The key performance is by Juliet Stevenson. Her comments show that she had a real insight into Rosalind's character... The film gets over the obvious fact that scientific research is performed by human beings with no trace of the stereotyped emotionless scientist...It tells a good story at a good pace so that people from all walks of life can enjoy it and absorb some of its lessons. All in all, Life Story must be considered a success. In other hands it could easily have been nothing quite as good." End of quote

and I think it is brilliant!

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