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49 Up
Directed by
Michael Apted
Not Rated
2006
2h 15m
Documentary
,
Biography
8.1
97%
86%
7.3
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Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
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Cast of 49 Up
Bruce Balden
Self
Jacqueline Bassett
Self
Symon Basterfield
Self
Andrew Brackfield
Self
Neil Hughes
Self
John Brisby
Self
Paul Kligerman
Self
Susan Sullivan
Self
Lynn Johnson
Self
Suzanne Dewey
Self
Nicholas Hitchon
Self
Tony Walker
Self
Michael Apted
Interviewer/Narrator (voice) / Director / Producer
Bill Jones
Executive Producer
Claire Lewis
Producer
Kim Horton
Editor
Nick Steer
Sound
Helen Breslin
Production Coordinator
Jacki Turner
Production Coordinator
Cort Kristensen
Production Coordinator
49 Up Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This seventh installment is utterly fascinating, drawing heavily on footage from the previous movies to follow each child on the journey into middle age.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Michael Apted's Up series remains one of the great imaginative leaps in film.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
I can think of no single movie, fictional or factual, that more strongly awakens our common humanity or that establishes such a marvelous, tight bond with its characters.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The segments are so cleverly arranged -- [director Michael Apted] includes past pictorial references for each of the people we revisit -- that now there is something almost mystical involved.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
But a funny thing happened on the way to the class-warfare lecture: Most of the subjects got on with living their lives, ignoring their class distinctions in the process.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
I'll wait breathlessly for 56 Up, and hope this brave group will speak to the camera again; giving us the gift of a share in their lives.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
On the cusp of their half-century mark, Apted's British subjects have accommodated themselves to what they were, what they are, and what they will be.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The latest riveting, heartbreaking chapter to one of the supreme creations of documentary filmmaking, the 7 Up series.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Taken as a whole, these films constitute one of the greatest uses of cinema a documentary filmmaker has ever devised. Like the other films in the series, 49 Up is alternately touching and mundane.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Dropping by on the same people every seven years like an old friend -- or an unwelcome relative -- Apted has constructed a peerless, suspenseful work that develops character to a depth that would make Tolstoy jealous.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
When I saw 42 Up in 1999, I thought the series had run its natural course and that it was time to leave the "kids" alone. I was wrong. They have just entered a new and exciting phase of lives that are very much works in progress.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
49 Up marks the latest chapter in one of the most ambitious documentary projects in movie history. Make that the history of any medium, for how often do we get to witness a time-lapse study of human life?
AV Club
Noel Murray
If the purpose of the Up series has been to show how class determines destiny in the UK, then what we've actually learned is that everyone there gets a fair shot to make it to the middle.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
They're both fascinating and timeless, and like the hopes and dreams we carry with us from the day we're born to the day we die Apted's series captures humanity at every spectrum of its evolution.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
More than a deeply satisfying movie; it's a reminder of the wonder contained in ordinary lives.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A deeply moving meditation on the natural evolution of existence.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
The films have taken on an autumnal shade as we revisit people who seem quietly aware that the years behind them are more than those ahead.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
What the series means in the long run is anybody's guess; I just know I sleep better at night knowing it's out there.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
To the extent that it opens a window into the puzzling business of growing older and affirms - with touching reflectiveness and exuberant humor -- the suspicion that we are all in the same boat, 49 Up is priceless.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
What 49 Up shows is how the past is forever changing in its significance, its context. The more you watch, the more you are committing yourself to watching 56 Up and beyond.
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