Here

Nov 22 – 26

7:00 pm nightly
1:30 Sunday Matinée
PG — 1hr 44min
2024 ‧ Drama / Fantasy

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star alongside a living room in Here. The movie brings them together onscreen for the first time since Forrest Gump. Hanks and Wright are two of the many actors who end up passing through it over the course of the film, which, like the 1994 Best Picture winner, was written by Eric Roth and directed by Robert Zemeckis. The conceit of Here, which was adapted from the comic strip by Richard McGuire, is that time moves while the camera doesn’t, not until it’s released in the final shot. From Here’s chosen angle, we watch generations of residents move in and out and do all sorts of living in between; we only ever see the outside when the film visits a period before the house was built. It’s a bold formal choice to regard the world through a fixed point in space.

At first, it is open land that gives us glimpses of everything from the dinosaurs perishing to Native Americans living their lives to the home of Benjamin Franklin’s estranged son. As the 20th century arrives, the location becomes a duplex’s living room, and we begin observing the lives of some of those living within its walls. In the 1910s, we witness how Pauline Harter (Michelle Dockery) is constantly fretting over the possibility that her risk-taking husband John (Gwilym Lee) will perish in the newfangled airplane that appears to be the only focus in his life. In the 1940s, on the other hand, we observe a horny-but-happy couple (David Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond) as they go about developing one of the great creations of the century.

Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences. Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Castaway, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Contact, Back to the Future) directs from a screenplay by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Killers of the Flower Moon, Dune, A Star is Born) and him. Told much in the style of the acclaimed graphic novel by Richard McGuire on which it is based, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in a tale of love, loss, laughter and life, all of which happen right here.