Additional information for Across the Universe, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 14, 2007. The film is being distributed by Columbia Pictures and has not yet been rated. Across the Universe has a total running time of 133 minutes.
PG-13
USA
14A
Canada
15A
Ireland
12
Switzerland
12
Germany
NC-16
Singapore
U
Malaysia
15
South Korea
IIA
Hong Kong
11
Sweden
M/12
Portugal
12
Netherlands
R-13
Philippines
12
UK
K-13
Finland
13
Argentina
14
Brazil
M
Australia
L
Iceland
133min
5min
Across the Universe
France
Across the Universe
Germany
Across the Universe
Japan
Across the Universe
Poland
Across the Universe
Portugal
Across the Universe
Turkey
A través del universo
Argentina
A través del universo
Mexico
À travers l'univers
Canada
Across the universe - Csak szerelem kell
Hungary
All You Need Is Love
USA
Mehri tin akri tou kosmou
Greece
Napríc vesmírem
Czech Republic
Napriec vesmírom
Slovakia
Po drugiej stronie globu
Poland
Untitled Julie Taymor Project
USA
September 09, 2007
Canada
September 13, 2007
USA
September 14, 2007
USA
September 18, 2007
USA
September 28, 2007
Ireland
September 28, 2007
UK
October 09, 2007
Canada
October 12, 2007
USA
October 25, 2007
Italy
October 27, 2007
Thailand
October 30, 2007
Brazil
November 01, 2007
Australia
November 01, 2007
Israel
November 02, 2007
Slovenia
November 02, 2007
Turkey
November 15, 2007
Portugal
November 16, 2007
Bulgaria
November 16, 2007
Mexico
November 20, 2007
Norway
November 22, 2007
Germany
November 23, 2007
Italy
November 23, 2007
Romania
November 28, 2007
France
November 29, 2007
Czech Republic
November 30, 2007
Iceland
December 06, 2007
Slovakia
December 07, 2007
Brazil
December 07, 2007
Indonesia
December 12, 2007
Belgium
December 13, 2007
Russia
December 14, 2007
Norway
December 27, 2007
Singapore
January 01, 2008
Thailand
January 04, 2008
Poland
January 04, 2008
Spain
February 01, 2008
Latvia
February 14, 2008
South Korea
February 22, 2008
Sweden
February 28, 2008
Hong Kong
March 05, 2008
Philippines
March 07, 2008
Colombia
April 13, 2008
Netherlands
May 07, 2008
Argentina
June 03, 2008
Netherlands
June 20, 2008
Denmark
June 27, 2008
Finland
July 02, 2008
Egypt
August 09, 2008
Japan
October 14, 2008
Hungary
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The music of the Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
The film opens with a solitary figure, Jude (Jim Sturgess), sitting on a quiet beach front. He is singing "Girl" with a melancholy air, while looking off into the distant horizon. It's the end of the work day as Jude lines up with his fellow shipyard hands for their day's wages. After receiving payment from the old man in charge, Jude walks back home, smiling along the way.As he leaves, "Hold Me Tight" begins, while we flash to an idealistic prom scene, where Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) dances along with her boyfriend Daniel (Spencer Liff) and their high-school classmates. A classic band plays along, as Lucy sings to Daniel "Tell me I'm the only one..."In another part of the world, another couple in Liverpool is singing the same song as they dance at a dark underground Liverpool bar - a reference to "The Cavern Club," where the Beatles began their career. Jude holds his girlfriend (Lisa Hogg) as she sings "Let me go on loving you." Ambling along a dark and damp street after leaving the bar, Jude and his girlfriend hold hands and trip along the cobblestone. They stop to kiss along the road, as she tells Jude not to forget her while he is in America. He laughs and consoles her, singing "While I'm away, I'll write home everyday, and I'll send all my loving to you." While Jude continues to sing "All My Loving," he packs his bag, kisses his mom (Angela Mounsey) goodbye, and heads off to the docks to board a ship to America, seeking out his estranged father in New Jersey.Lucy, back at Daniel's house, is seeing him off to boot camp, and the Vietnam War. Daniel, dressed in his new uniform, drives away while Lucy runs after the car down the street. We then see Lucy sitting on her bed writing a letter, clearly for Daniel.In an army vehicle we see Daniel reading the letter presumably from Lucy as him and his fellow recruits drive away from Boot Camp. The vehicle drives past a high school football field, where football practice is winding down, with cheerleaders
running through their routines and watching the football players on the
field.After practice ends, one of the cheerleaders, Prudence (T.V. Carpio), watches wistfully as a fellow cheerleader flirts with one of the players. She softly sings "I Want To Hold Your Hand" as she watches her obvious object of affection walking away with the jock. As she watches them and sings, she walks off the field, into the unknown. We then see her on the side of the road, her thumb out, trying to get it ride to where ever it is she's headed. In a different part of America, Jude is doing exactly the same thing. A car pulls over for him and, momentarily trying to get in on the wrong side before realizing American cars are different, he gets in.Jude arrives at Princeton University and stands on the academic quad
while a student, obviously in a rush, tears his way through the campus
crowd and drops all of his books and papers. While stooping down to
help collect the papers, Jude asks the student if he knows a certain
Professor, believing him to be his father. The student, Max (Joe
Anderson), is first at a loss, until he realizes that Jude is looking
for the school janitor (Robert Clohessy). He laughs, and points to a
man washing windows on a ladder, saying "That's him."Introducing himself to the window washer, Jude explains who he is, and his reason for being at the school. At first, the man is surprised, saying that he didn't know the mother was pregnant, and that he would have married Jude's mother if he had known. Jude assures him that this apology wasn't what he wanted, but just wanted "them each to know that the other existed."Max, the charming and outgoing student from earlier, is on a roof with
a few of his buddies as they chip golf balls off of a beer bottle at
the nearby dormitory windows. After a few misses, he finally connects -
and the group flees the angry mob that spills out of the dorm. Jude,
seeing the commotion while out having a cigarette in front of the
building that his father is letting him stay in, lets Max slip in to
hide. Grateful, Max invites Jude to go out for the night with himself
and his golfing buddies. While proclaiming that they get by "With a
Little Help From My Friends," they smoke and drink their way through
town until they finally collapse on couches from exhaustion.Lucy walks home from school with her friend, while she talks about
missing her boyfriend Daniel. As they walk up to Lucy's house, her mom
hands her a letter while smiling; it's a letter from Daniel saying that
he has been able to get a few weeks leave, and will be home soon to
visit. Lucy launches into song as she flies up the stairs, excited to
know that "It Won't Be Long" before she'll be back together with
Daniel.For Thanksgiving break, Max invites Jude to his parents' house for the
holidays. After picking up Max's little sister, who turns out to be
Lucy, they continue on in his convertible to see the family. At dinner,
Max announces that he is dropping out of college, and going to New York to make a living. A family argument ensues, and the three decide to go out bowling to release some tension.At the alley, while they joke around and tease each other, Jude thinks to himself that he's "falling, yes he is falling" for Lucy while singing "I've Just Seen A Face." When he and Max drive away to a new life in New York City, Max warns Jude that Lucy has a boyfriend. Jude smiles and assures him that It's ok, he has a girlfriend too.Jude and Max arrive in the city, and after climbing to the top of a
walk-up building, they enter a large apartment owned by a tall singer
named Sadie (Dana Fuchs). She shows them the apartment, while several other people lounge around playing the guitar or reading. Pleased with the apartment, they agree to pay two weeks rent in advance, and become New York City residents.Moving to the streets of Detroit during the race riots, a little boy cowers next to a destroyed car on fire, while black men and women run on the streets from the police. Staring out at the audience, he sings "Let It Be" among the violence. Moving into a church in the black community, while the choir swells, we see the same little boy laying in a coffin, obviously a casualty of the fight. JoJo (Martin Luther) stands holding an older woman while she weeps, staring at the little boy's lifeless body. The little boy is his younger brother.Experiencing the same grief, we see Lucy weeping after a letter comes to Daniel's parents, notifying him of his death. She too, stares at the burial of her boyfriend, as Marines fold up the American flag and hand it to the mother Daniel has left behind.As the song ends, JoJo slings a guitar over his shoulder, and walks
down the street, heading to New York City himself. As he steps along,
"Come Together" plays to the beat. He walks down the street, and sees a sign for Guitarist Needed at the bar "Café Huh?" and enters. Sadie is
there, and gives him the role of lead guitarist in her band. He comes
to the apartment to live; one night while he is playing out a song on
his guitar for Jude, a water-logged Prudence climbs into their bathroom
window out of the rain, and becomes their newest roommate.After graduating from high school, Lucy joins her brother Max and
friend Jude in the city for the summer before she goes to college. She
is happy to see her brother, but is reluctant to give him the letter
that came for him - a draft notice from the government. At a party they
have at the apartment that night, Jude falls again for Lucy, and breaks
up with a girl that he was seeing. Lucy sings "If I Fell" while they
dance, and finally kiss.The next day, Max reports to the draft office for his physical, and
despite swallowing an entire box of cotton balls in the hopes that it
will show up as a shadow in x-rays, is deemed qualified for service.
While he and a large group of men all endure rigorous physicals, they
imagine an animated poster of Uncle Sam singing to them "I Want You."Back at the apartment, Prudence is mourning the coupling of JoJo and
Sadie, after she finds herself infatuated with the tall singer. She
locks herself into the closet, and the others sing "Dear Prudence" to
coax her out of her hiding place. Despite this, Prudence leaves
unexpectedly; no one is sure where she goes.The remaining gang goes to a party where an agent tries to convince
Sadie to go solo. Tripping out on pink punch, the group hops on a
psychedelic bus trip across the country. At a stop in a field, they see
a traveling circus run by Mr. Kite, and find Prudence in the troupe
dating a contortionist named Rita.Max is now off to war, leaving Lucy angry and distraught. After seeing
an anti-war speaker in the park, she decides to join their organization
to protest Vietnam and bring the troops home. As Lucy devotes more and more time to the organization, Jude becomes jealous of the man that runs the group.Sadie has finally told the rest of the band that she is planning on
going solo. Infuriated, JoJo purposefully ruins her opening song "Oh!
Darling" with distracting and awful guitar riffs, which forces her to
leave the stage. Having his own relationship trouble, Jude sinks into his artistic work while singing "Strawberry Fields Forever." He and Lucy have now fought over her increasing involvement and obsession with her anti-war group, culminating in Jude confronting her at their headquarters while singing "Revolution."After being kicked out, he walks by a window display of tthe announcement of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. "While
My Guitar Gently Weeps" starts playing. He meets up with JoJo and gets drunk, only to find that Lucy has moved all of her belongings out of
the apartment, leaving him. Later that day, he gets on a subway (to the
song "Across The Universe") to go to Columbia University, where the
anti-war group's actions escalate to increasing violence, leading to
police action at a rally at Columbia University.Sadie starts singing "Helter, Skelter" at a club, while Jude, walking through, sees Lucy as one of the protesters being arrested by the police, and attempts to save her while she is being dragged away. She calls out to him, but he is overcome by the police and is arrested.At the same time, Max gets into a firefight, where he has to shoot a lot. He gets injured and has a dream sequence about naked Vietnamese mothers floating in the river.Meanwhile, Jude sits in his jail cell, as more and more prisoners are
let free to go home. Finally, alone, his father comes to visit him. His
father breaks the news that although the police will not press charges,
he is being forced to leave the country and return to England. He
encounters Molly, his old flame, who is now pregnant with Phil's child.While he is walking home, the scene cuts to Lucy at Max's bedside in
the V A hospital. He starts singing "Happiness is a Warm Gun" in a
sequence with Salma Hayek as a nurse.At one of her rallies, Lucy is in a phone booth, while her mother pleads with her on the phone to be careful and begs her to stop her involvement in the protests. Resolved, she argues with her mother, when a fight breaks out, and a gun shot hits the phone booth. Lucy tells her mother she has to go and hangs up, then screams as she sees a protestor being savaged by a police dog next to the phone booth. Not hurt but shaking in terror, Lucy sinks down while singing to herself that it'll be alright. TV scenes of the DC protests and the Pentagon protest show while Max is watching from the V A hospital. Lucy goes back to the old protest headquarters and finds Paco making pipe bombs."A Day in the Life" is playing as Jude gets off work, and he gets a newspaper and sees that the place where the protesters were organized from had blown up. Cut to him sitting on the beach... then cut to the wharf area in NY, where Max is sitting and Lucy sings "Blackbird", while Jude wanders the beach and tidal areas in Liverpool.Jude gets back into his routine at the shipyards, then sits in a pub after work, drinking a pint. To the words of "Hey Jude," sung by Max (as imagined by Jude as sitting next to him, while he is looking into a mirror behind the bar), he runs to his house to again pack his bags, and returns to the States (with a visa) to get back Lucy. Max meets him at Customs, and takes him to the building where Sadie and JoJo's reunited band is playing "Don't Let Me Down" to a cheering crowd on the streets.Lucy, not knowing Jude is back, is invited with a note by Max to come to the concert. She is about to press the buzzer when she sees the strawberry logo Jude designed for Sadie, and old memories of her and Jude and the pain of the breakup come rushing back, and she walks away hurriedly. The police break up the concert as the crowd gathering gets larger. Jude hides from the police, and after being left alone on the roof, starts singing "All You Need Is Love" into the microphone. Sadie, JoJo, Prudence, Max, and the rest all rush back up to the roof, and join in. Lucy hears Jude's voice, and frantically rushes to get into the building, only to be stopped by the police. She turns, and runs to a building across the street, and stares at Jude from the roof across the way. As the rest of the band join in with song, Jude catches Lucy's eye from across the building. She smiles as a tear runs down her cheek. Jude sighs and a smile of happiness slowly spreads across his face. Together in the end, they kiss as "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" plays during the end credits.
Julie Taymor
Director(s)
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Julie Taymor
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Writer(s)
Richard Baratta
co-producer
David Brown
line producer: UK, Liverpool
Derek Dauchy
executive producer
Matthew Gross
producer
Ben Haber
co-producer
Geoffrey Hansen
associate producer (as Geoff Hansen)
Charles Newirth
executive producer
Rudd Simmons
executive producer
Jennifer Todd
producer
Suzanne Todd
producer
Producer(s)
Elliot Goldenthal
Composer(s)
Lucy Carrigan
Evan Rachel Wood
Jude
Jim Sturgess
Max Carrigan
Joe Anderson
Sadie
Dana Fuchs
Jo-Jo (as Martin Luther McCoy)
Martin Luther
Prudence
T.V. Carpio
Daniel
Spencer Liff
Jude's Liverpool Girlfriend
Lisa Hogg
Cyril
Nicholas Lumley
Phil
Michael Ryan
Martha Feeny - Jude's Mother
Angela Mounsey
Cheer Coach
Erin Elliott
Wesley 'Wes' Huber - Jude's Father
Robert Clohessy
Dorm Buddy / Dancer
Christopher Tierney
Dorm Buddy
Curtis Holbrook
Dorm Buddy
John Jeffrey Martin
Dorm Buddy
Matt Caplan
Jock (as T.R. Boyce Jr.)
Timothy R. Boyce Jr.
Tavern Waitress
Aisha De Haas
Tavern Waitress
Leah Hocking
Old Guy at Tavern
Bill Buell
Julia Carrigan - Lucy's Sister
Ellen Hornberger
Emily
Amanda Cole
High School Girlfriend
Danya Taymor
Mr. Carrigan - Lucy's Father
Dylan Baker
Mrs. Carrigan - Lucy's Mother
Linda Emond
Grandmother Carrigan
Lynn Cohen
Uncle Teddy
Bill Irwin
Daniel's Mother
Jennifer Van Dyck
Jo-Jo's Brother (as Timothy T. Mitchum)
Timmy Mitchum
Gospel Singer
Carol Woods
Jo-Jo's Mother (as Elain Graham)
Elain R. Graham
Hooker
Orfeh
Hooker
Antonique Smith
Hooker
Tracy Nicole Chapman
Hooker
Yassmin Alers
Hooker
Deidre Goodwin
Bum / Pimp / Mad Hippie
Joe Cocker
Rap Magazine Employee
Jacob Pitts
Rap Magazine Employee (as Staceyanne Chin)
Staceyann Chin
Director(s)
Ian La Frenais
Julie Taymor
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Writer(s)
co-producer
David Brown
line producer: UK, Liverpool
Derek Dauchy
executive producer
Matthew Gross
producer
Ben Haber
co-producer
Geoffrey Hansen
associate producer (as Geoff Hansen)
Charles Newirth
executive producer
Rudd Simmons
executive producer
Jennifer Todd
producer
Suzanne Todd
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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