Here

"Joy, hope, loss, love, life happens..."

2024 1h 44m EN

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★6.5TMDB · 731

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An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

“Joy, hope, loss, love, life happens...”

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Cast

Tom Hanks
Richard
Robin Wright
Margaret
Paul Bettany
Al
Kelly Reilly
Rose
Finn Guegan
Young Richard
Callum Macreadie
Young Richard
Ellis Grunsell
Young Richard
Teddy Russell
Young Richard

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Earned back only 38% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Zemeckis, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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5 / 8

ERA

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

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6 / 8

CAST

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Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and Paul Bettany carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Joy, hope, loss, love, life happens...".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt18272208 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Robert Zemeckis directs. Don Burgess behind the camera. Alan Silvestri scores. Jesse Goldsmith cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Earned back only 38% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released 2 years ago.
3Directed by Robert Zemeckis, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Alan Silvestri. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jesse Goldsmith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and Paul Bettany carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Joy, hope, loss, love, life happens...".
8IMDB entry: tt18272208 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Don Burgess
Original score: Alan Silvestri
Editing: Jesse Goldsmith
Production design: Ashley Lamont
Costume design: Joanna Johnston
Makeup / hair: Stuart Bray
VFX supervisor: Vincent Cirelli
Sound: Leff Lefferts
Stunt coordinator: Marc Mailley
Runtime: 104 min · 1h 44m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $15,397,270
Return: 38% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Here (2024)

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r96sk2025-01-17
★ 9/10
<em>'Here'</em> is one of the most original movies that I have personally seen, I can't say I've watched one that does anything like this. To tell such a story from (basically) a single camera angle is a brave choice, but it is one that Robert Zemeckis & Co. nail tremendously. I loved it. I would've predicted some slow moments and that the sole vantage point might've gotten repetitive/boring, happily neither of those two things occurred. There are plenty of events that keep it all interesting and the unique angle ensures freshness. Those on the cast are, of course, helpful too. Tom Hanks is as great as always, Robin Wright is also very good. Paul Bettany is, though, the one that stood out most to me, he is excellent at every moment. His character is most attached to all the more serious parts of this, most notably alongside Kelly Reilly's Rose. I saw this at the cinema as part of a double bill with Pablo Larraín's <em>'Maria'</em>; randomly chosen due to the showtimes matching up with my schedule, but what a great four hours or so in front of the big screen it turned out to be. Quality viewing!
CinemaSerf2025-01-22
★ 6/10
I really did quite like the concept behind this film. A sort of house-bound version of the "Truman Show" where a residence provides the continuity for the lives and loves of it's occupants over multiple generations. Our perspective comes from only one side of the room, looking out of the window at a grand Colonial mansion that once belonged to a Jefferson somewhere along the line. Right from the construction of this residence, we follow the lives of three distinct families, and the timelines are intertwined to avoid it just becoming a chronology of the place. It's also all interspersed by some native American imagery to remind us that this whole process of being born, breeding and dying is nothing new. The latter part of this film pulls the threads together of the mainstay of the storyline. The family of "Al" (Paul Bettany) and "Rose" (Kelly Reilly) who bring up their family and end up sharing in adulthood with their son "Richard" (Tom Hanks) and his wife "Margaret" (Robin Wright). It's this partnership that proves to the more turbulent as they find themselves trapped by his dead-end job, their dependancy on his parents for a roof over their head and as age overcomes all of these characters, the growing realisation that perhaps life is just passing - or has passed - them by. Robert Zemeckis has tried to construct something different here, and I did like that he didn't just trot a diary according to... The use of visually defined boxes to indicate to us that we are about to change timeline or storyline also, once you get used to it, works quite effectively, as does the use of the soundtrack to use music as a sign of changing attitudes. Sadly, though, the acting isn't really the sum of it's parts and the temptation to sink into the melodramatic seems to prove too much for all concerned. It is funny at times and the observational nature of the presentation can be poignant, too, but the flighty nature of the narrative is almost theatrical in style and doesn't allow us to really get our teeth into any of the characterisations. Wright increasingly underwhelms as an actor these days and here her pairing with te unremarkable Hanks comes across as all a bit shallow as we head a denouement that's rather clumsily telegraphed to us in the final fifteen minutes. It is an intriguing version of lives through a lense, and is certainly worth a watch. It's just a bit one-dimensional.