The Age of Adaline

3.50
    The Age of Adaline
    2015

    Synopsis

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

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    Cast

    • Blake LivelyAdaline Bowman
    • Michiel HuismanEllis Jones
    • Harrison FordWilliam Jones
    • Ellen BurstynFlemming
    • Kathy BakerKathy Jones
    • Amanda CrewKikki Jones
    • Lynda BoydRegan
    • Hugh RossNarrator
    • Richard HarmonTony
    • Fulvio CecereCab Driver

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Movie Nation

      Ford, in a performance as affecting as any he’s ever given, lifts this romance in ways we never see coming.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      Lively’s performance grows more engaging as her facade finally begins to crack, and Huisman serves as a sufficiently handsome foil throughout, but if anyone rises to the occasion, it’s Harrison Ford as a former flame reunited with Adaline through a perverse twist of fate.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Lively looks fantastic in every era’s fashion as it passes, and she does a nice job of conveying Adaline’s old-world diction and reserve; there’s no Gossip in this girl.
    • 60

      Variety

      A sensitively directed slab of romantic hokum that wrings an impressive amount of emotional conviction from a thoroughly ludicrous premise.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      Age of Adaline, which starts off looking like a frothy series of excuses to put Blake Lively in some fabulously timeless gowns, ends up an emotional and even bold chamber drama. Its ending is ludicrous, but also perfect, and I’d be lying if I didn’t get a little choked up.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      An elegantly confected cream puff of a melodrama, The Age of Adaline plays like an exercise in handling a preposterous story, booby-trapped for maximal ridiculousness, with tasteful conviction. Far from the bloated tearjerker suggested by the trailer, the film is pleasant, respectable and a bit dull, reining in the inherent silliness of its material and taking few risks.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      Less a sincerely kooky elegy to lost time than a slightly off-kilter acting out of familiar rom-com bona fides about commitment-phobes missing out on life.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      For a movie that emulates literature, The Age Of Adaline never fits comfortably into a particular form — literary or cinematic.

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