Product Description
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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 her in America, he is
swept up by the waves of change that are reshaping 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)
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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
Beyond Across the Universe
Two-disc Special Edition (
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The Deluxe Soundtrack (
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Beatles audio CD (
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