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Based on the comic book "Here" by Richard McGuire
Tale
A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing love, loss, laughter and life. It was first published as a strip in the comic book magazine "Raw" in 1989 and expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. [from the trailer] Richard: You know, if you want, you can spend the rest of the night here..
Introducing Toast of the Town (1948)
I was excited to see this film last night at the AFI Film Festival. But after watching it, I was disappointed with the film. Robert Zemeckis of "Back to the Future" fame loves to use technology to illustrate his films.
"here" – somewhere in New England or Pennsylvania)
In this case, he uses different picture-in-picture panel inserts to show what was happening at different times in the same place (i.e. It also uses anti-aging techniques to turn Tom Hanks and Robin Wright into teenagers (done much better than Scorsese’s “The Irishman”). But these pluses don’t make up for the mediocre and predictable story that centers on Tom Hanks’ (and Robin Wright’s) initially exuberant youth being ruined by the realities of adult life.
Been there, done that
The parallel stories of Benjamin Franklin’s son, a Native American, an early aviator, the alleged inventor of the Laz-e-boy, and a black family, all occupying the same space at different times, ultimately serve as a distraction rather than an enhancement. The unusual use of panels eventually becomes tiresome, as does the use of AI to create ancient times and animals. The lead actors (Hanks, Wright, Bettany, and Reilly) are excellent, but I just wish they had been given a better script to work with.
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