During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality – little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany’s World War II Enigma machine. An intense and haunting portrayal of a brilliant, complicated man, THE IMITATION GAME follows a genius who under nail-biting pressure helped to shorten the war and, in turn, save thousands of lives.
“There’s a film to be made about how government secrecy came spiraling out from Bletchley to conquer the future in which we now live, but “The Imitation Game” would rather give you a very good night at the movies.”
–Ty Burr, Boston Globe
“It’s a marvelous story about science and humanity, plus a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, plus first-rate filmmaking and cinematography, minus a script that muddles its source material to the point of betraying it”
–Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“Produced with a Masterpiece Theater eye for period detail, but also with a missionary’s zeal to honor a wrongly dishonored man.”
–Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
