Now and Then

"In every woman there is the girl she left behind."

1995 1h 42m EN

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6.9

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36%

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6.8

IMDB

★6.9TMDB · 492🥫36%Rotten Tomatoes●50Metacritic★6.8IMDB · 34,719

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Synopsis

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Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

“In every woman there is the girl she left behind.”

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Cast

Christina Ricci
Roberta
Rosie O'Donnell
Roberta
Thora Birch
Teeny
Melanie Griffith
Teeny
Gaby Hoffmann
Samantha
Demi Moore
Samantha
Ashleigh Aston Moore
Chrissy
Rita Wilson
Chrissy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writers: I. Marlene King
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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

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2 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, shot by Ueli Steiger. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Cliff Eidelman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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

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5 / 7

CAST

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Christina Ricci and Rosie O'Donnell and Thora Birch carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "In every woman there is the girl she left behind.".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0114011 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Lesli Linka Glatter directs. Ueli Steiger behind the camera. Cliff Eidelman scores. Jacqueline Cambas cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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131 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, shot by Ueli Steiger. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Cliff Eidelman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Jacqueline Cambas shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Christina Ricci and Rosie O'Donnell and Thora Birch carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "In every woman there is the girl she left behind.".
7IMDB entry: tt0114011 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ueli Steiger
Original score: Cliff Eidelman
Editing: Jacqueline Cambas
Production design: Anne Kuljian
Costume design: Deena Appel
Makeup / hair: Deborah K. Larsen
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $12,000,000
Box office: $27,400,000
Return: 228% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Now and Then (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes: 36% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 50/100
IMDB rating: 6.8/10 · 34,719 votes
MPAA: PG-13

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1 nomination total

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Filipe Manuel Neto2023-09-04
★ 5/10
A film with some charm and lack of originality, but which works well as a family film, and which deserves to be brought back from oblivion. This production from the 90s, currently somewhat forgotten, is another film without any bones that we can watch with our grandmothers and our children by our side, and which deserves to be revisited and cherished. I can understand why it fell into the deepest forgotten films: it's not a remarkable production, it's not one of those films that leaves a mark on us for life. However, it does its job impeccably. The story is quite nice, even if it has nothing original: four friends meet again many years after having separated to pursue their lives, and the bond of friendship that has united them since childhood is reinforced by the reunion, full of nostalgia and good memories. There are lots of films about situations like this, and with similar themes, this is not new, but it is well done. The film has four good adult actresses (Demi Moore, Rita Wilson, Rosie O'Donnell and Melanie Griffith) and four promising ones (Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann and Ashleigh Aston Moore), since the four main characters are played today and at puberty, twenty years earlier. This is very interesting, but the truth is that there are not even similarities between the young actresses and their adult counterparts: the most blatant case is the character Roberta, where I really don't see any physiognomic similarity between Ricci and O'Donnell. Of course, people change… but not radically. If we forget this uncomfortable detail, the work of the eight protagonists is quite good, and each one has time and opportunities to show what they are worth. On a technical level, the film is strictly nothing special. The recreation of the 1970s fails because it is not very evident, that is, there are no elements, in the sets or props on stage, that help us understand the era in which the action takes place. The setting has a certain charm and good taste (I especially liked the gas lamps), and the tree house is very beautiful, as are the filming locations and cinematography. But that's it.

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