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Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson VI, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther II Director: Julie Taymor Rating: Features: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 133 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Release Date: February 5, 2008 Theatrical Release Date: October 9, 2007 Studio: Sony Pictures
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Columbia Pictures Across The Universe Blu-ray "Across The Universe," from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines werebeing drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude Jim Sturgess leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up bythe waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy Evan Rachel Wood, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins thegrowing anti-war movement in New York's GreenwichVillage. 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. With a cameo by Bono, "Across The Universe" is "the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
Set in America during the Vietnam War, Across the Universe is a powerful love story set against a backdrop of political and social unrest: it's a story of soul-searching, self-doubt, and individual powerlessness cleverly conveyed through a multitude of Beatles songs. Like young adults all across America during the 1960's, Jude Jim Sturgess, Lucy Evan Rachel Wood, Max Joe Anderson, Sadie Dana Fuchs, Prudence T.V. Carpio, and JoJo Martin Luther are in turmoil over the war; questioning their individual roles in the war effort and struggling to find a way to hold true to their beliefs while making a difference in the world. While love proves a powerful uniting force, its limitations become clear as relationships are strained and broken over individual perceptions of responsibility to cause and country. A fairly bizarre juxtaposition of extremely stylized, almost hallucinogenic scenes of swirling colors and reflections, highly choreographed dance segments, seemingly commonplace character interaction, and emotionally packed close-up footage of characters lost in contemplative song, this film imparts a good sense of the confusion and passion of the time and is at once powerful, invigorating, and disturbing. The film runs a bit long at 2-hours 11-minutes and several segments drag noticeably thanks to some incredibly slow song tempos. Warning: this production may change how you think about a favorite Beatles song forever. --Tami Horiuchi
Beyond Across the Universe
Two-disc Special Edition
The Deluxe Soundtrack
Beatles audio CD
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