Hereafter (film)
2010 film by Clint Eastwood / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Peter Morgan. It tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways—all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays American factory worker George, who is able to communicate with the dead and who has worked professionally as a clairvoyant, but no longer wants to communicate with the dead; Cécile de France plays French television journalist Marie, who survives a near-death experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and British schoolboy Marcus (played by Frankie and George McLaren), who loses the person closest to him. Bryce Dallas Howard, Lyndsey Marshal, Jay Mohr and Thierry Neuvic have supporting roles.
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Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
Written by | Peter Morgan |
Produced by | Clint Eastwood Kathleen Kennedy Robert Lorenz |
Starring | Matt Damon Cécile de France |
Cinematography | Tom Stern |
Edited by | Joel Cox Gary D. Roach |
Music by | Clint Eastwood |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English French |
Budget | $50 million[3] |
Box office | $107 million[4][5] |
Morgan sold the script on spec to DreamWorks in 2008, but it transferred to Warner Bros. by the time Eastwood (who has a long-standing relationship with Warner Bros.) had signed on to direct in 2009. Principal photography ran from October 2009 to February 2010 on locations in London, San Francisco, Paris and Hawaii.
Hereafter premiered as a "Special Presentation" at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2010. The film was given a limited release on October 15, 2010 and was released across North America on October 22, 2010. Although a box office success, the film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the plot and acting performances, while noting that the movie suffered from a lack of focus on the story.