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IMDb rating 7.3
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Critic rating 7.8

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Critic Ian Nathan
rated 8

...while it remains an old-fashioned story where boy gets girl, with the silly-perfect message that all you need is love.

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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 10

For a film that is almost wall to wall with music, it has a full-bodied plot.

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Critic Tasha Robinson
rated 6

...Across The Universe digs deep into Sony's Beatles catalogue and lets more than 30 songs sprawl out, often at full length.

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Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup
rated 7

...en broget, modig, sød og musikalsk oplevelse...

Read full review at Cinemazone

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Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama set in the 1960s. The film follows Jude, a young dockworker from Liverpool, who travels to the United States to find his estranged father. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with Lucy, an American girl from a wealthy family. As they navigate their relationship amidst the turbulent backdrop of anti-war protests and counterculture movements, they are forced apart by circumstances beyond their control. The film features a soundtrack filled with Beatles songs and takes viewers on a journey through psychedelic Greenwich Village and riot-torn Detroit. Ultimately, Jude and Lucy must find their own way back to each other against all odds.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Across the Universe include Stranger Than Fiction, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Upside Down, Just Like Heaven, Tuck Everlasting.

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Across the Universe was released in theaters on September 14, 2007.