Across the Universe

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Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff.
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.

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Excellent Movie submitted by kkachado on January 2, 2010, 8:33am This is a must see to add to your list of movies to watch.

If you are a child of the 60's/70's or love that era you will find yourself entranced by this movie. The movie is listed as a musical but you will find that it doesn't have the musical feel. The music is so integrated into the movie that it is part of the overall theme. The voices of the singers are refreshing and unique, not soon to be forgotten I still have them resonating in my head.

There is a second CD that discusses the genius of Julie Taymor the director. There is also insight into special effects and the character development.

Check this movie out - take some time and enjoy the ride!

This is one of my favorites! submitted by Amber Kinder on June 15, 2013, 7:56pm Really well done. Love it.

A treat for the eye and ear submitted by cherylo on July 15, 2013, 10:43pm The premise is that it's a musical constructed from Beatles Songs. Bono and Eddie Izzard make appearances as a psychedelic guru-figure and Mr. Kite respectively. Joe Cocker appears as three characters, one of whom is as a pimp sporting an impossibly-wide purple shirt collar. The choreography was amazing and fun. I totally ate it up. A while back, I tried Moulin Roluge. I wanted desperately to like it. It was visually and auditorially stunning. But I didn't like it. It took me a while to puzzle the difference out. MR is at its heart a tragedy. It's central theme can be boiled down to "Isn't tragedy BEAUTIFUL" (cue back of hand to forehead). You really don't see the characters making connections with each other. AtU, though, is ultimately a comedy in the Shakespearian sense; it has a happy ending. But you're not always sure it's going to go that way. There is a strange detour into psychedelia, ushered in by the aforementioned Bono's interesting rendition of I am the Walrus, which is ultimately a side show. There are hints of songs that don't appear (Sexy Sadie comes to mind, and boy was she), echoes of events in the Beatles' professional and personal lives (the last sequence involves a concert on a rooftop that is very obviously a reference to the famous Get Back performance reel), characters named transparently to refer to various songs (Jude, Lucy, Prudence, etc.), and *lot* of eye candy. The singing is pretty good to excellent. If you like The Beatles, Moulin Rouge was a near miss for you, or you don't find happy endings automatically shallow, give Across the Universe a look and a listen.

Highly Recommended submitted by rmhawkins on July 20, 2014, 9:25pm This is an incredible movie! From the first time I watched this film, I thought it was something special. The plot flows together perfectly, which is all the more impressive considering the movie was formed around songs which were decades older than it. The cameos from Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Joe Cocker were also great additions. A must see for a Beatles fan and also highly recommended for even the casual viewer.

Lovely submitted by amd12 on August 11, 2023, 1:12pm Best visual of the Beatles music