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Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire
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A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.. It was originally published as a strip in the comics magazine "Raw" in 1989, and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014..
Features They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Richard's father at one point early in the film names several cities that he states are along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, when in fact these are all cities that are along Interstate 80 in PA, which hadn't even built at the time.. [from trailer] Richard: You know, if you like, you could spend the rest of the night here.Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here..
Concerto for Clarinet, Pts
1 and 2Written by Artie ShawPerformed by Artie Shaw and His OrchestraCourtesy of RCA RecordsBy arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. From the writer, director and stars of "Forest Gump" "Here".Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite on screen for the first time since "Gump" The Hanks character "Richard" annoyingly repeats the phrase "how time flies".Wright is marvelous as his long suffering wife "Margaret" (I've got one of those at home here too), and their daughter "Vanessa" played by the directors own offspring Zsa Zsa Zemeckis."Here" is like a feature length version of the animation short that opens "Up" full of joy, hope, loss, love.Let's admit it life happens."Here" felt like a stage play and could work well in that format of the arts with different players through the generations in a simple yet powerful compendium of stories through the ages all intertwined in the one living room of a home built in 1900, but started life as a block of dirt in earths creation…clearly not a film made by Hollywood Christians."Here" deals with war, politics, family, art, social traditions, aging, racism, inventions, the Beatles, disease and so much more, since primordial times to the present day from the point of view of a basic bay windowed room.In fact, there is only one external shot of the house at number 115 and it doesn't come until just before the end titles roll.If you've got a home like mine that was built in 1934 and often wondered about the history of the plot.
Zemeckis and composer Alan Silvestri, whose first film was the adventure comedy Romancing the Stone (1984)
(1985) as well the sequels "Back to the Future Part II" (1989) and "Back to the Future Part III" (1990), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Contact" (1997), "Cast Away" (2000) and Oscar winner "Forrest Gump" (1994).Despite playing Tom Hanks' parents in this film, Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly are 15 and 21 years younger than Hanks, respectively.They get around this by digitally de-aging the prime stars.AI is used a heck of a lot in "Here".Ironically or deliberately Bettany's characters name is Al which looks like A-I on paper.One historical figure featured in the film is American founding father Benjamin Franklin and the house where his son William Franklin, a former US Governor lived is opposite #115 and part of the constantly changing vista.Franklin's portrait is shown among "Doc Brown's" ; fireplace in 1955 in "Back to the Future".