Premiere
18
Jul2011
About
Synopsis
"Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story" (2011) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Paul A. Kaufman traces Joanne Rowling from a quiet, story-obsessed girl in the English town of Yate to a single mother scribbling in an Edinburgh café. Poppy Montgomery plays the adult Joan; Emily Holmes takes the earlier years.
The film is less about the books and more about the decade before them: her mother's illness and death, a failed marriage in Portugal, years on welfare when the idea of being a published author felt laughable. The story of what it took to finish the manuscript — and keep going — is the actual subject. Stream "Magic Beyond Words" (2011) online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring
Poppy Montgomery
Joanne Rowling
Emily Holmes
Diane Rowling
Antonio Cupo
Jorge Arantes
Janet Kidder
Anne Rowling
Madison Desjarlais
Seventeen-Year-Old Joanne
Andy Maton
Christopher Little
Aislyn Watson
Eight-Year-Old Joanne
Marie West
Aine
Lisa Norton
Jill
Sarah Desjardins
Thirteen-Year-Old Diane
Patti Allan
Mrs. Morgan
Wesley MacInnes
Sean Harris
Paul McGillion
Pete Rowling
Glynis Davies
Case Worker
Kirsten Slenning
Young Mother
Lauren K. Robek
Manager
Loretta Walsh
Dark-Haired Mother
Eliza Faria
Six-Year-Old Diane
Beatrice King
Receptionist
Evan Bird
Ian Potter
Paul A. Kaufman
crew
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