Here (2024)

October 25, 2024 (AFI Fest)November 1, 2024 (United States)

October 25, 2024 (AFI Fest)
November 1, 2024 (United States)

Here is a 2024 American drama film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire. Echoing the source material, the film is told in a nonlinear fashion: using a locked-down or "static shot" technique, the story covers a single plot of land and its inhabitants, from the distant past to the 21st century. During the film, the screen is often subdivided into panes, presenting events from different times simultaneously. The film stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, and Kelly Reilly, with digital de-aging via generative artificial intelligence being used on much of the cast to have them portray their characters over time.

Here premiered at the AFI Fest on October 25, 2024, before being theatrically released in the United States by TriStar Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing on November 1, 2024. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $16 million.

Storyline

Dinosaurs are shown roaming an area until they are wiped out, and the Ice age takes hold. After the ice age ends, the land turns green again. Much later, the area is home to the Lenni-Lenape people, and a storyline follows a man and woman, their courtship, family, and eventually the woman's death. The man sees a hummingbird, which is seen periodically throughout the film, after his wife's burial.

The area is then part of the estate of William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's son (the last colonial governor of New Jersey from 1763 until 1776). Right around the turn of the 20th century, the home that becomes the center of most of the film's action is built. Its first tenants are John Harter and his wife, Pauline. Mr. Harter has a deep passion for flying airplanes and later dies of the Spanish flu.

Later inhabitants of the house include the bohemian couple Lee, an inventor, and Stella Beekman, a pin-up model, who live there in the 1940s before and during World War II. Lee invents what becomes the La-Z-Boy recliner and the couple move to California.

The Young family—originally led by Al and Rose—buy the house in 1945, after the conclusion of World War II. The Youngs raise three children in the house: Richard, Elizabeth, and Jimmy. After an 18-year-old Richard gets his girlfriend Margaret pregnant, they get married and raise their daughter Vanessa in the house.

Sometime in the 1970s, Rose suffers a debilitating stroke and as a result, she and Al move to Florida to check into a rehabilitation facility. Al decides to hand the house over to Richard and Margaret, much to Margaret's chagrin.

In the early 2000s, sometime after Rose's death, Al moves back in. Not long after, Richard and Margaret divorce, though they remain friends. Richard ultimately ends up selling the house after Al dies.

By the mid- to late 2010s, the house is inhabited by Devon and Helen Harris and their son Justin. Helen is devastated when their housekeeper, Raquel, dies of COVID-19. In the aftermath, Devon and Helen sell the house as well.

As an elderly man, Richard takes Margaret—who now has dementia—to the empty house in 2024. He tries to remind her of several special events they shared "Here" and the time Vanessa, as a child, lost a blue ribbon from school, which finally triggers all her happy memories of their shared lives. The stationary camera then starts to pan away, and shows the only outside shot of the original house as seen from William Franklin's mansion roof. A hummingbird appears in the final scene.

On the DVD, several deleted scenes are included, with one showing a mammoth roaming during the ice age, while another shows the eventual destruction of the house by a flood that slowly recedes to become a marsh.

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