Here (2024)

[chitowngirl]

From the reunited director, writer, and stars of Forrest Gump (1994), Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Eric Roth and Zemeckis and 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 tale of love, loss, laughter and life, all of which happen right Here.

[Cress]

I saw it twice and enjoyed it. I never read the comic, but I liked the way individual panels on the screen show glimpses of the same location, but in different time periods. The main plot is about the Young family from 1945 or so to present day, but we get scenes of other people too, such as a Native American couple, Benjamin Franklin's estranged family, an inventor and his girlfriend, and a Black family with a housekeeper who dies during the pandemic.

Watching these couples age over the years and go through emotional hardships was touching to me, though I've read critics' reviews saying that it's corny or trite. Whatever. I liked it.