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42 UP
First Run Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett,
Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield,
John Brisby, Suzanne Dewey,
Charles Furneaux, Nicholas Hitchon,
Neil Hughes, Lynn Johnson,
Paul Kligerman,
Susan Sullivan,
and
Tony Walker
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. One of the most interesting film experiments ever. This time the group is 42, with eleven of the original fourteen still being documented.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Apted
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 21, 2001
Video: November 21, 2000
Theatrical: November 17, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
139 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The latest episode of this ongoing masterpiece of reality TV -- which every seven years revisits a group of English people first interviewed as 7-year-olds in 1964 -- is every bit as enthralling as the earlier ones.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant than anyone could have imagined when the project began.
100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The latest installment is packed with surprises and emotion for people who've seen earlier stages of the project, but even newcomers will be fascinated by the vivid glimpses it provides of everything from love and family to political action and the pervasiveness of class distinctions in British life.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This series should be sealed in a time capsule. It is on my list of the 10 greatest films of all time, and is a noble use of the medium.
100
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
A truly great and deceptively simple work, redefining the power of film.
91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
An empathetic portrait of humanity on a house-by-house, heart-by-heart basis.
90
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects.
90
Time
Richard Corliss
Apted...has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family.
90
Film.com
Henry Cabot Beck
Perhaps the most remarkable documentary project ever undertaken, and certainly the longest, is Michael Apted's Up series, which he began shooting for the BBC in 1962.
90
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
That nothing more monumental than an everyday life has occurred to any of the subjects is perhaps the film's most compelling aspect.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Time is truly on Apted's side because the passing of time not surprisingly brings a richer, deeper perspective with each new segment.
90
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
When this hugely ambitious project began, it was a longitudinal study of class divisions among English schoolchildren. But time and persistence have turned it into much more.
88
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
42 Up is filled with truth and poignancy as these people reflect on their first half of their lives, their goals, ambitions, and how they, for the most part, succeeded in reinventing them.
88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.
88
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
The only film sequels in history that just keep getting better.
88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Offers a welcome continuation of what has proven a fascinating journey both for the film's 11 subjects (three of the 14 opted out of the project this go-round) and its audience.
75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
I love this series; it's possibly the most exciting use of the documentary medium ever.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Difficult to weigh and rate precisely because it deals with real life and real people.
70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Where this still vital series was once about what sets us apart, it now seems to be turning towards the things that, in the end, render us all equal.
70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Intending to study the degree to which social class would determine the subjects' destinies, the series actually documents something more filmable--the degree to which the subjects believed social class would determine their destinies and the degree to which they believe it has.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It would be tempting to describe the Up movies as a miracle in the history of nonfiction filmmaking, if they didn't also represent one of the cinema's most singularly squandered opportunities.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A living artifact that does what movies do best: exist in time.
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