
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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