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Across the Universe (2007)

Across the Universe
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Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson

A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. ... (read more)

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54% liked it
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PG-13, 2 hrs. 11 min.
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Release Date: Sep 14, 2007
DVD Release Date: Feb 05, 2008

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1 day ago
skip 10 mins later just felt a bit cheap
1 day ago
Simply wow! What more can I say? A highly entertaining movie, cute at some points, but also heart-breaking. What makes the atmosphere more gloomy is the war and how it's adding so much negativity and pressure onto every character. I would've liked to... (read more)
2 days ago
When this movie "gets it", it really gets it right. I wanted to sing along with almost every song, at other times, I wanted to applaud, and other places moved me to the point of tears...particularly the "Let It Be" sequence. The first hour is magni... (read more)
2 days ago
kisah cinta dengan alunan musik yang sangat merdu dan lembut....
3 days ago
One of my favorites, so much fun to watch.

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792 days ago
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
[A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.
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797 days ago
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
...Julie Taymor's rhapsodic mash note to John, Paul, George and Ringo falls just short of breathtaking.
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810 days ago
Claudia Puig, USA Today
An often-dazzling rock opera set to the accompaniment of 33 Beatles songs.
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810 days ago
Kyle Smith, New York Post
An interesting failure, not a fascinating one.
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811 days ago
Pete Hammond, Maxim
Something that would have been a bad idea for an Off-Broadway concept show has inexplicably been turned into a bloated two hour and eleven minute movie musical.
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