Hereafter (2010)

Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,823 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three people in different countries are each affected by death in a personal way. A factory worker who can talk to the dead tries to leave that ability behind. A journalist survives a tsunami and has a strange experience. A schoolboy loses the person closest to him.

emotionalcontemplativeslow-pacedmelancholichopefulintimatebittersweetserioussomber

What happens

Hereafter is a 2010 American fantasy disaster film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by Peter Morgan. It tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways—all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays American factory worker George Lonegan, who is able to communicate with the dead and who has worked professionally as a clairvoyant, but no longer wants to communicate with the dead; Cécile de France plays French television journalist Marie Lelay, who survives a near-death experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and British schoolboy Marcus (played by Frankie and George McLaren), who loses the person closest to him. Bryce Dallas Howard, Lyndsey Marshal, Jay Mohr and Thierry Neuvic have supporting roles. Morgan sold the script on spec to DreamWorks in 2008, but it transferred to Warner Bros. Pictures by the time Eastwood (who has a long-standing relationship with Warner Bros.) had signed on to direct in 2009. Principal photography ran from October 2009 to February 2010 on locations in London, San Francisco, Paris and Hawaii. Hereafter premiered as a "Special Presentation" at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2010. The film was given a limited release on October 15, 2010, and was released across North America on October 22, 2010. Although a box office success, the film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the plot and acting performances, while noting that the movie suffered from a lack of focus on the story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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