Across the universe [videorecording] / directed by Julie Taymor ; screenplay by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais ; story by Julie Taymor & Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais ; produced by Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, Matthew Gross ; a Matthew Gross/Team Todd production ; a Revolution Studios presentation ; released by Columbia Pictures.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
2-disc deluxe ed.; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1).
Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Bono, Eddie Izzard. Filmed at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, NYC. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007. Special features (disc 1): optional audio commentary with Taymor & Goldenthal, with optional Korean subtitles; deleted scene (1 min.); 2 alternate takes (6 min. total); 3 photo galleries ("On the set", "Behind the scenes", "Design"). Special features (disc 2, with optional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish or Thai subtitles): "Creating the 'Universe'" featurette (29 min.); "Stars of tomorrow" featurette (27 min.); "All about the music" featurette (15 min.); "Moving across the 'Universe'" featurette (9 min.); "FX on the 'Universe'" featurette (7 min.); 8 extended musical performances (35 min. total).
Summary:
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
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