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Across the Universe

Cast

Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs View All

Crew

Julie Taymor (Director), Dick Clement (Screenplay), Ian La Frenais (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 14th, 2007

Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutes

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. 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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TheUsualSuspect
Across The Universe is ambitious, beautiful and will have you singing along to the tunes. It's about thirty minutes too long and has very little character development and plot, but the story is there..

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Gideon58
Fans of the 1975 Ken Russell musical Tommy and the 1979 Milos Foreman musical Hair will have a definite head start with an intoxicating 2007 musical called Across the Universe, that takes a simple star-crossed romance and makes it something purely unique thanks to striking and endlessly imaginative ....

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