HERE SYNOPSIS:

A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.

 

Joy, hope, loss, love, life happens ...

Cinema, above anything else, is pictures in motion - how they move, why they move and where they’re moving to. Obviously, but this thesis is the entire backbone to Robert Zemeckis’ Here. A formally radical film where the camera is fixed on a single perspective overlooking a very specific point of American geography. Here, dinosaurs once roamed the earth, significant inventions were made, family gatherings were held, as well as almost every up and down in the average American life. All within this American living room you get frames within frames, time within time, and lives within lives. Here is a voyage through time, but also a meditation on the very geography Americans live their lives on - almost like a spiritual successor to Terrance Malik’s The Tree of Life. 

 

The whole film relies on such a formally radical hook that one may wonder if it works or not, and I feel it does… most of the time. We really see an honest and sincere perspective in this voyage of time, and at times, it is quite captivating and impressive. However, one does wonder if the drama and structure of this would be more engaging if the film were more standard. To say it’s just theater would be disingenuous perhaps, but at times, it doesn’t do much to distance itself from it. There are some clever editing tricks within the frame, but then there’s the dramatic distance that almost makes this feel like a museum piece. Here is captivating, and different. Such a radical big swing from Zemeckis as he displays meditations about America and its place in not only time, but even our own planet.

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SPECIAL FEATURES 

• How We Got Here (The Making of HERE)

• Deleted Scenes

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RT Critic Score (as of 01/23/24)

39%.

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RT Audience Score (as of 01/23/24)

59%.

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MPAA

PG13.

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Runtime 

104 minutes.​

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Original Release 

2024.​​

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Video 

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1

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Audio

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Audio descriptive

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Subtitles 

English, English SDH, Spanish

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Discs

Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD-50)

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Digital 

Digital HD
Movies Anywhere

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Packaging

Slipcover in original pressing

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Playback
2K Blu-ray: Region A​​​