Here (2024)
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- Synopsis:
- From the reunited director, writer, and stars of 'Forrest Gump', 'Here' is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Eric Roth and Zemeckis and told much in the style of the acclaimed graphic novel by Richard McGuire on which it is based, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in tale of love, loss, laughter and life, all of which happen right 'Here'.
- Actors:
- Tom Hanks, Kelly Reilly, Robin Wright, Michelle Dockery, Paul Bettany, Ophelia Lovibond, Daniel Betts, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Lauren McQueen, Beau Gadsdon, Jonathan Aris, Leslie Zemeckis, Dexter Sol Ansell, Zsa Zsa Zemeckis, Stuart Bowman, David Fynn, Billie Gadsdon, Lilly Aspell, Stephanie Siadatan, Joel Oulette
- Directors:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Producers:
- Bill Block, Derek Hogue, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis
- Writers:
- Richard McGuire, Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Reviews (2) of Here
Technically innovative yet trite and empty - Here review by AER
Robert Zemeckis high-concept film told from a single camera POV is innovative and could've been potentially exciting. But it barely focuses on its human characters at all having them srpint through a non-linear scattering of births, deaths and marriages. It also contains wildly inconsistent acting styles and the quality is up and down. The usually dependable Kelly Reilly and Paul Bettany are awful. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright fare slightly better but the dialogue is thin and the events rushed through. In essence, HERE is a 1.45hr-long montage sequence. A better script or even plot idea to pin it's 'device' to would have made this worthwhile. Instead, take a look at David Lowery's Ghost Story, that does the same thing smaller, better and with more feeling. Disappointing.
A Novelty Melodrama - Here review by GI
Essentially a melodrama that at times feels glib and perfunctory when it moves into historical territory and as it's filmed in a fixed position in the living room of a house in Philadelphia it just feels like a novelty. Because, though, it stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright you sort of feel obliged to ride with it and although the de-aging technology utilised here to have the two stars go from teenagers to old age feels a bit false it's their characters that are the heart of the film. In many ways this is a typical Robert Zemeckis film, syrupy and fairytale in its depictions of everyday life. The film follows the various lives of occupants of the one house and it slips and slides across various times including prehistoric all the way to the modern day with most of it in the one room. Attempts to dip into the loss of Native American land to settlers is dealt with far too quickly and a clever scene where the last occupants, a black family, has the dad giving advice to his young son on how to deal with a police traffic stop is clever but again not given enough prominence. This is because the central story here is of one family staring with parents played by Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly, post Second World War, through to their oldest child and his new girlfriend (Hanks and Wright) who are forced for economic reasons to live with his parents when she becomes unexpectedly pregnant. Their marriage with all its ups and downs is the main story. It's all ok but the constant flitting around with the use of inset panels to change the times is, after awhile, annoying and the film feels static and dull. An interesting experiment perhaps but not very cinematic.