Oscar Isaac
Will Dempsey
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Plot. Chapter One – The Hero. Narrator Samuel L. Jackson calls Henry the hero, as he talks to his therapist, Dr. Cait Morris. Unimpressed, he focuses on Cait. As she crosses the street, Will Dempsey accidentally causes her to be hit by a bus. Breaking the narration, Sam appears, insisting Cait is fine as she is the hero.
Life Itself is a generation-spanning story about love and loss that begins by following Will (Oscar Isaac) a screenwriter spiraling after his pregnant wife, Abby (Olivia Wilde), leaves him. His struggles affect his daughter Dylan (Olivia Cooke), who grows into a troubled young woman in New York City.
Sep 21, 2018 · “Life Itself” loads up plot line on top of plot line to imitate emotional depth, a kind of narrative manipulation that just doesn’t work for everyone. This review was originally filed from the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th.
Sep 21, 2018 · Life Itself: Directed by Dan Fogelman. With Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin. As a young New York City 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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- Drama, Romance
- Dan Fogelman
- 2018-09-21
Sep 21, 2018 · As their story unfolds in New York, fate links them to a group of people in Seville, Spain, including a troubled young woman, a man and his granddaughter, a wealthy landowner and a plantation...
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- Dan Fogelman
- R
- Oscar Isaac
Sep 19, 2018 · The story flashes back to Will and Abby meeting in college, jumps sidewise to a visit to Will’s parents (Jean Smart and Mandy Patinkin) and then leaps across the Atlantic from Manhattan to Spain,...
Sep 21, 2018 · Kristin Smith. Movie Review. What is life? Who gets to say how it begins, where it takes us, when it ends? These are the kinds of questions humankind has pondered since the beginning. And these are the kind of questions that are raised in Life Itself. This is a story of generations.
