Storyline
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
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Cast
Salma Hayek, Robert Clohessy, Ted Lochwyn, Bono, Dylan Baker, Bill Buell, Jennifer Van Dyck, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Jacob Pitts, Chris McGarry, Antonique Smith, Eddie Izzard, Joe Anderson, Harry Lennix, Spencer Liff, Logan Marshall-Green, Lynn Cohen, Timmy Mitchum, Bill Irwin, Frank Hopf, Deidre Goodwin, T.V. Carpio, Mandy Gonzalez, William Atkinson, Linda Emond, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Curtis Holbrook, Saycon Sengbloh, Cicily Daniels, James Urbaniak, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Erin Elliott, Christopher Tierney, Ellen Hornberger, Orfeh, Joe Cocker, Destan Owens, Sam Kitchin
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Reviews
83
The film is a strange, nostalgic, suitably outrageous ode to a very real revolution in consciousness.
75
Chicago Tribune
If you're a Beatles fan who's not offended by people taking serious liberties with the arrangements of your favorite songs, the unrepentantly exuberant and seriously tuneful Across the Universe is pretty much a sure thing.
70
Variety
All you need is love -- for the Beatles, for psychedelic visuals, for ideas about being young in the ‘60s -- to fully enjoy Across the Universe.
67
The A.V. Club
It's all very clever and thought-through, but all the allusions don't much bolster the bland central romance or the paper-thin treatment of '60s social issues.
63
An interesting failure, not a fascinating one.
