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Across the Universe is a musical movie made in There are also other famous actors and singers who appear in the movie: Bono , who plays Dr. Robert , Eddie Izzard as Mr. The movie was released in North America on 12 October in The story starts in the early s. They have never met and his father does not know Jude exists.
Using 33 Beatles songs and minimal dialogue, Across the Universe tells the story of three young adults in the late s: Lucy then year-old Evan Rachel Wood , an all-American girl who wants to change the world; her brother Max Joe Anderson , a rebel who gets dragged into Vietnam; and Jude Jim Sturgess , a working-class artist from Liverpool who follows his dreams across the ocean. Their stories coalesce in New York City, where they befriend blues musicians, acid heads, radical extremists, a closeted lesbian, and Bono in a ridiculous mustache. Even in more traditionally constructed scenes, the scale is breathtaking; the entire film was shot on location and, according to Taymor, employed 5, extras. The film polarized critics Roger Ebert loved it , Ann Hornaday hated it and opened to limp box office, failing to recoup its budget. And yet — in the past decade, the audience for Across the Universe has grown, its inevitable cult-classic status realized.