Being Human (1994)

Directed by

Bill Forsyth

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The movie follows five different men across different eras of history. They are all played by the same actor to suggest they share a single soul. Each man makes similar mistakes in love and friendship, showing how ordinary life repeats through time.

contemplativeslowpoignantepisodicphilosophicalgentlewhimsicalunderstatedreflective

What happens

Being Human is a 1994 comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Carlyle, Theresa Russell and Ewan McGregor in his feature-film debut. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and Japan, the film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man's history on Earth. An attempt on director-screenwriter Bill Forsyth's part to depict by visual means the ordinariness of life throughout the ages, Being Human is deliberately slow in its pace to emphasize how slow life often is. The structure is one of vignette-like character studies of one man (actually five distinct men, all with the same soul) who keeps making the same relationships and mistakes throughout his lifetimes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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