Connelly, Bettany open film fest with Darwin tale

By Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany are kicking off September’s Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.

Bettany stars as the theory-of-evolution pioneer and Connelly plays his wife in Creation, which opens the festival Sept. 10.

The Toronto event is among a flurry of film festivals that help launch Hollywood’s awards season each year.

Other films announced by festival organizers include Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh’s whistle-blower saga The Informant; Clive Owen’s widower drama The Boys Are Back; Michael Douglas’ womanizer tale Solitary Man; and Tim Blake Nelson’s comic story Leaves of Grass, with Edward Norton in dual roles as twin brothers.

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