30/18
Based on the comic “Here” Richard McGuire
Synopsis
A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing love, loss, laughter and life. It was first published as a comic strip in the comic magazine “Raw” 1989, and in 2014 it was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel..
Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here
[from trailer] Richard: You know, if you want, you can spend the rest of the night here. I was excited to see this movie at the AFI Film Festival last night.
But after watching it, I was disappointed with the movie
Robert Zemeckis from “Back to the Future” slava likes to use technology to illustrate his films. In this one, he uses different picture-in-picture panel inserts to show what was happening at different times in the same place (ie "Here" – somewhere in New England or Pennsylvania).
Been there, done that
He also uses aging techniques to turn Tom Hanks and Robin Wright into teenagers (done much better than Scorsese’s The Irishman). However, these pluses do not make up for the mediocre and predictable story that focuses on the initially exuberant youth of Tom Hanks (and Robin Wright) that is destroyed by the reality of adult life.
The redundant use of panels gets tiresome over time, as does the use of AI to create ancient times and animals
The parallel stories about Benjamin Franklin’s son, a Native American, an early aviator, the alleged inventor of the Laz-e-boy, and a black family who lived in the same space at different times end up serving as distractions rather than enhancements. The main cast (Hanks, Wright, Bettany and Reilly) are excellent, but I just wish they had a better script to work with.
