This article is about the 2014 film. For the 1980 television play by Ian McEwan, see The Imitation Game (play).The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who helped solve the Enigma code during the Second World War and was later prosecuted for his homosexuality.
Category: Biography | Drama | Thriller
Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Produced by: Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsk, Teddy Schwarzman
Written by: Graham Moore
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Running time: 114 minutes
Budget: $14 million
Release dates: 14 November 2014 (United Kingdom) , 28 November 2014 (United States)
Short Story:
In 1927, the young Turing (Alex Lawther) is unhappy and bullied at boarding school. He develops a friendship with Christopher Morcom (Jack Bannon), who sparks his interest in cryptography, and Turing develops romantic feelings for him. Before Turing can confess his love, Christopher dies unexpectedly from tuberculosis.
In the 1950s, Turing is convicted of indecency and, in lieu of a jail sentence, undergoes chemical castration so he can continue his work. Clarke visits him in his home and witnesses his physical and mental deterioration. She reminds him that his work saved lives. She uses the phrase Christopher used of Turing and Turing once used of her: "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
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