42 Up

"In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42."

1999 2h 13m EN

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7.6

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★7.6TMDB · 57

Documentary

Synopsis

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Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

“In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42.”

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Cast

Bruce Balden
Self
Jacqueline Bassett
Self
Symon Basterfield
Self
Andrew Brackfield
Self
John Brisby
Self (archive footage)
Suzanne Dewey
Self
Nicholas Hitchon
Self
Neil Hughes
Self

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Apted
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Up Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Kim Horton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Bruce Balden and Jacqueline Bassett and Symon Basterfield carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Marketing tagline: "In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42.".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0164312 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 57 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Michael Apted directs. Kim Horton cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

127 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "The Up Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Editor Kim Horton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Bruce Balden and Jacqueline Bassett and Symon Basterfield carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42.".
7IMDB entry: tt0164312 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 57 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing: Kim Horton
Runtime: 133 min · 2h 13m
Status: Released
Box office: $300,880
Original language: EN
IMDB: 42 Up (1999)

Part of

The Up Collection

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of the fourteen as he can get to participate.