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starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson (VI), Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther (II)directed by: Julie Taymor
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396194625
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Running Time: 133 minutes
Sales Rank: 104
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 2007
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Product Description:
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 were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) 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 (Evan Rachel Wood) 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. 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)System Requirements:Run Time: 133 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396194625 Manufacturer No: 19462
Amazon.com:
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
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY!
Help! I need somebody, not just anybody, but the director!
If you must start with disc 1, comparisons will be made. Like the movie "Hair" made you long for the original play and storyline, the movie "Tommy" made you long for the original album and storyline..."Across the Universe" will actually make you long for, or at least appreciate, Stigwood's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
One surely wonders why the director chose, out of over 200 songs, most of the drug ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful and Bizarre
What a beautifully bizarre film that brilliantly uses a catchy and heartwarming Beatles soundtrack to show a tempestuous time in our nation's history. Though the movie is at times so bizarre it's confusing, it is easy to get caught up in the stunning and surreal artistic visuals. For me, the best musicals are those that know how to get in your face with pulse-pounding song and dance scenes and can also stir your heart with songs that are sad or romantic.
Across the Universe does all of ... Read More
Rating:  - Six Stars. No, Seven.
A total surprise. The concept begs for derision and kept me away for many months, fearing yet another ham-handed mauling of Beatles material and a clueless painting of the era.
What I got instead was probably the most perfect and realistic portrayal of what it was like to be a young person in counterculture America in the late Sixties that I've ever seen in fictional film...
Four reasons come to mind, the film having just ended five minutes ago.
1) The performances ... Read More
Rating:  - Sorry Evan Rachel Wood
As a Beetles fan, as a musicals fan, and so much more this movie disappoints.
The singing is uninspired, the story is blawse, and overall it's just a major let-down.
Rating: - Great, Great, Great...
This film is a creative unpacking of the Sixties. The characters in the film are named after various characters found in music of the Beatles. Each scene builds on the previous integrating a compact history of the counter culture rebellion, the Vietnam War, and the music that defined a generation of activists, dropouts, artists, hippies, and recalcitrant non-conformists. My guess is this is a period piece that those who lived through the age might find interesting, but when I attended the showing of the ... Read More
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