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American scientist Jim Watson (Jeff Goldblum) joins forces with his English counterpart, Francis Crick (Tim Pigott-Smith), and together they strive to outdo their brilliant contemporaries as they...
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- Jeff Goldblum
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- Drama
Feb 8, 2020 · The movie The Race for the Double Helix is based on the experiences that Rosalind Franklin underwent as she worked on unveiling mysteries behind the human DNA (Scott & Gilbert 89). The movie depicts the discovery of DNA and the scientific compaction involved in its development.
A review of Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix, a 1987 film that dramatizes the discovery of the structure of DNA by the James Watson and Francis Crick.
Based on a true story, the film focuses on two rival teams of scientists in a race to discover the structure of DNA: James Watson (Jeff Goldblum) and Francis Crick (Tim Pigott-Smith) at Cambridge University and Maurice Wilkins (Alan Howard) and Rosalind Franklin (Juliet Stevenson) at King’s College London.
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Well-done drama about science. Alan One 12 November 1999. The Race for the Double Helix effectively brings to life James Watson's book (upon which it was based), which tells the story of how he and Francis Crick came to be the first to correctly describe the molecular structure of DNA.
