Across the universe [videorecording (DVD)] / Revolution Studios presents a Matthew Gross Team Todd Production ; screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais ; produced by Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd and Matthew Gross ; directed by Julie Taymor.
Jude, a young dockworker from Liverpool, travels to America, where he falls in love with Lucy, and together they join the Vietnam war protests after Lucy's brother is drafted. Set to some of the Beatles' most popular songs.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781424861002
- Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: Extended musical performances ; deleted scene ; commentary with director Julie Taymor and music producer/composer Elliot Goldenthal ; 5 behind-the-scenes featurettes ; photo gallery. Title from container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Eddie Izzard, Evan Rachel Wood, Bono, Jim Sturgess. |
| Target Audience Note: | Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; widescreen presentation. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
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| Subject: | Feature films Man-woman relationships > Fiction Musical films Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
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"This original musical film is a fictional love story set in the 1960's amid Beatles music, the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, the killing fields of Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and painted and three-dimensional animation, the film is paired with many Beatles songs that defined the time." - Baker & Taylor
A British boy and an American girl fall in love during the anti-war protests, rock and roll revolution, and other social upheavals of the 1960s.
