Based on the comic book Here by Richard McGuire
A generational story about families and the special place they live, where they share love, loss, laughter and life. First published as a strip in the comic magazine Raw in 1989, it was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. The story is set in Philadelphia, but the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs is shown in the same area.
Featuring They Stooge to Conga (1943)
That asteroid landed on what is now what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. [from the trailer] Richard: You know, if you wanted, you could spend the rest of the night here. Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here.
But after watching it, I was disappointed with the film
Concerto for Clarinet, Parts 1 and 2Written by Artie ShawPerformed by Artie Shaw and his OrchestraCourtesy of RCA RecordsCourtesy of Sony Music Entertainment I was excited to see this film last night at the AFI Film Festival. Robert Zemeckis, of Back to the Future fame, loves to use technology to illustrate his films. In this film, he uses various picture-in-picture overlays to show what’s happening in the same place at different times (e.g., “Here” – somewhere in New England or Pennsylvania).
I’ve seen this before
He also uses rejuvenation techniques to turn Tom Hanks and Robin Wright into teenagers (done much better than Scorsese’s The Irishman). However, these plus points don’t make up for a mediocre and predictable story that focuses on Tom Hanks’ (and Robin Wright’s) initially exuberant youth being destroyed by the realities of adult life. Parallel stories of Benjamin Franklin’s son, a Native American, an early aviator, the alleged inventor of the Laz-e-Boy, and a black family all inhabiting the same place at different times ultimately serve as more of a distraction than an enrichment.
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The gimmicky use of panels eventually becomes tiresome, as does the use of AI to create ancient times and animals. The main cast (Hanks, Wright, Bettany and Reilly) are all excellent, but I just wish they had been given a better script to work with.