Directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski team up to helm this adaptation of David Mitchell's popular novel CLOUD ATLAS. The trio have put together an all-star cast, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant, to play various characters over the course of several different historical time periods. The various narrative threads weave in and out of each other, painting a portrait of mankind's quest for tolerance and peace throughout the ages.
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Product Details | Number of Discs: | 1 | Rating: | R (MPAA) | Film Country: | Germany | UPC: | 883929241361 |
Additional Details | Genre: | Dramas | Format: | DVD |
3 stars out of 5 -- "The movie version has the exciting and challenging parts down....A work that is rapturously grand in scope and ambition..." Box Office - Mark Keizer (10/15/2012)
"CLOUD ATLAS is one of the most structurally deft and brilliantly edited films in recent memory..." Total Film - James Mottram (02/04/2013)
"CLOUD ATLAS is a movie about migratory souls and wayward civilizations, loaded with soaring themes and flights of feeling..." New York Times - A. O. Scott (10/25/2012)
"Beautifully photographed, elegantly crafted and adventurously cast." Wall Street Journal (10/25/2012)
"The film draws graceful connections between its parallel narratives....A work of many stories, but a singular achievement." -- Grade: B A.V. Club - Keith Phipps (10/25/2012)
"The sincerity with which it pursues the emotion and the very idea of the reverberating impact selfless actions can have is quite moving." Movieline - Alison Willmore (10/26/2012)
4 stars out of 4 -- "Oh, what a film this is! And what a demonstration of the magical, dreamlike qualities of the cinema. " Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (10/24/2012)
4 stars out of 5 -- "It’s an adventure into the very concept of storytelling: magical, enthralling and thrilling..." Empire - Ian Nathan (03/01/2013)
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