Film

Across the Universe

Name: Across the Universe
Director: Julie Taymor
Released: 2007
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy

2007 · 133 min · ★ 7.1 · Dir. Julie Taymor

All you need is love.

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. 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.