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56 Up
Directed by
Michael Apted
Not Rated
2012
2h 24m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.9
98%
76%
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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 56 Up
Peter Davies
Self
Neil Hughes
Self
Tony Walker
Self
Lynn Johnson
Self
Susan Sullivan
Self
Jacqueline Bassett
Self
Paul Kligerman
Self
Symon Basterfield
Self
Suzanne Dewey
Self
John Brisby
Self
Bruce Balden
Self
Andrew Brackfield
Self
Nicholas Hitchon
Self
Michael Apted
Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
56 Up Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Apted, himself now in his early 70s, says he hopes to continue the series further. Long may it live.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Yes, on some level it's just a seven-year check-in with people maybe half-remembered, if that. Yet the films also serve as a kind of check-in with us, too.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
We feel good, refreshed and depressed in watching these people get older, also embarrassed in moments and cautioned about the passage of time.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
We are all older now, and this series proves it in a most deeply moving way.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The original documentary was intended to illustrate how the country's deeply ingrained class system inscribed itself on the aspirations and inner lives of its young people. But the successive movies have been far less polemical.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Time has been neither kind nor cruel to the 13 men and women profiled in "56 UP." It has just been time, which is what this groundbreaking series is about.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
We're now at 56 Up,, and with each passing calendar leap, the experience of watching has only become more soul-stirring.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
What ultimately is so compelling about 56 Up is the universality of the experiences. We were all once children. And we all will die. And in between, there is everything else.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
These are moving images of touchingly vibrant lives at certain moments in time and space.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
'56 Up" is as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries ...
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What gives the series its force is not just its universality but also its particularity. These grown-ups may be Everyman, but they are also singular.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
To see "56 Up" is to be reunited with an old friend.
Newsday
John Anderson
Apted creates a graceful back-and-forth from the earlier films to the present, and the experience of seeing people who have lived so much on screen is quite profound.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
In 49 Up, many of the series' subjects seemed to be just settling into their bliss; now they're committed to it, and the foreclosed possibilities that come alongside.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This suffers as well from the fact that the subjects' lives haven't changed all that much since 49 Up (2005); perhaps the series will improve yet as they head into old age.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Apted skillfully weaves old footage with the new, and we become poignantly aware of another factor shaping their lives (and our own): biology, as the we watch the once-cute kids grow gray and heavy.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Inevitably, one looks in the mirror afterward and thinks, What have I lost? What have I gained? And at what cost?
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
"56 Up" reminds us that change is ceaseless and often dramatic, bringing growth we could never have dreamed of as little kids.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
The effect is often profoundly moving, but you can't help but feel at times like there are other stories here you're missing.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
It offers a few insights, and fascinating updates on the most compelling characters.
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