Across the Universe

4.00
    Across the Universe
    2007

    Synopsis

    When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

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    Cast

    • Evan Rachel WoodLucy Carrigan
    • Jim SturgessJude
    • Joe AndersonMax Carrigan
    • Dana FuchsSadie
    • Martin Luther McCoyJo-Jo
    • T.V. CarpioPrudence
    • Spencer LiffDaniel
    • Lisa Dwyer HoggMolly
    • Nicholas LumleyCyril
    • Michael RyanPhil

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The film is a strange, nostalgic, suitably outrageous ode to a very real revolution in consciousness.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      If you're a Beatles fan who's not offended by people taking serious liberties with the arrangements of your favorite songs, the unrepentantly exuberant and seriously tuneful Across the Universe is pretty much a sure thing.
    • 70

      Variety

      All you need is love -- for the Beatles, for psychedelic visuals, for ideas about being young in the ‘60s -- to fully enjoy Across the Universe.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      It's all very clever and thought-through, but all the allusions don't much bolster the bland central romance or the paper-thin treatment of '60s social issues.
    • 63

      New York Post

      An interesting failure, not a fascinating one.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Across the Universe, which filters the cultural revolt through a blizzard of early Beatles songs, ends up both reductive and smugly condescending to a presumptively know-nothing audience.
    • 50

      ReelViews

      Elements of Across the Universe are shockingly awful and the film lasts at least 30 minutes past the bearable stage. But if you like the Beatles and the idea of hearing about 20 covers of their work fills you with a perverse joy, this may be the movie for you.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Julie Taymor's visual gifts are very much in evidence in Across the Universe, an ambitious, only partly successful attempt to reinvigorate the musical genre.

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