Storyline
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
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Cast
Antonio Banderas, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Isaac, Zach Page, Jean Smart, Ed Crescimanni, Annette Bening, Caitlin Carmichael, Lorenza Izzo, Olivia Cooke, Mandy Patinkin, Àlex Monner, Laia Costa, Charlie Thurston, Jake Robinson, Isabel Durant, Adrián Marrero, Kya Kruse, Gabby Bryan, Jordana Rose, Bryant Carroll, Carmela Lloret, Grace Song, Micah Stock, Tony Manna, Yvonne Szacki, Noah Gaynor, Brian Deodat, Joe Apollonio, Mikaela Steele, Manuel Ramos Morilla, María Dolores Rodríguez Villegas, Carmen Vique Rodríguez, David Freedman, Theodore Mejia, Caridad Montanez, Javier Verdugo Luque, Pablo Lagüens Abad, Yeray Alba León, Rehan, Dale Nussbaum, María Dolores López Vera
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Reviews
50
Fogelman clearly gets a thrill in constructing a tapestry full of one random tragedy after another (seriously, almost nothing good seems to happen to these people long term). And he also appears to love manipulating the audience’s emotions with these subsequent tragedies.
50
There’s too much going on. Maybe if Fogelman had a season of television to delve into these characters’ connections and inject the vigor of Will’s chaotic mind into the quieter passages that follow, Life Itself could be great.
40
Some of the wit and emotion strikes home and the longer we spend with individual characters the more their story resonates.
38
Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself packs in enough narrative twists and turns to leave viewers with a sense of emotional whiplash. One tragedy bleeds into another so often that the events begin to blur.
33
Though Life Itself is neither good nor “so bad it’s good,” it’s also such a bizarre, inexplicable film that it’s almost worth seeking out just to experience it for yourself. For those who want to watch a worthwhile family melodrama, however, just stick with This Is Us.
