38/49
Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire
A generational story of families and the special place they live in, sharing love, loss, laughter and life.. It was first published as a strip in the comic magazine Raw; in 1989, and in 2014 was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel. At one point early in the movie, Richard’s father names several towns that he says are on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, when in fact they’re all towns along Interstate 80, in PA, which wasn’t even built at the time.. [from trailer] Richard: You know, you could spend the rest of the night here if you wanted.Margaret: I could spend my whole life here..
Clarinet Concerto, Fri
Features They Stooge to Conga (1943). 1 & 2 Written by Artie Shaw. Performed by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Courtesy of RCA Records By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. 'Here' is the fifth film directed by Robert Zemecki and starring Tom Hanks, and while it’s not a 2.5-hour epic spanning 3 decades like Forrest Gump, it somehow manages to span 65 million years.
We then follow ~5 families and their lives on the site at various times
This is done using a film trick where the camera sits in one place, focusing on the site of a house built in the early 19th century (probably in New Jersey, USA), which contains several memories of what was there on that piece of land before the house was built, including a Native American tribe. It’s not all linear, but it’s not overly convoluted either, with the main storyline following Al (Bettany) and Rose (Reilly) as they buy a house after World War II. There they raise their 4 children and Richard (Hanks) is played by an aged / «Big» era Hanks from ~16. He then meets an elderly Margaret (Wright) and we follow them as they age in her home for decades.
The editing is sometimes good, but often unnecessarily annoying
There are some beautiful moments, some funny moments and some sad scenes. Even though it’s a pretty short movie, it probably didn’t need at least 2 of these cutscenes! It tries to depict the small moments in life that together make up the human experience. It’s getting close, but the jumping doesn’t let you get too attached to anything, so the edginess goes away..
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