Life Itself
Story of two lovers from New York, the movie follows both of them from their start in the college passing through their wed and the birth of their first child. During this exciting journey, they exposed to a series of dramatic events together and many challenges in the whole life.
18 February 1985, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA
July 25, 1995 in Dublin, Ireland
27 December 1993, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
27 January 1995, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
29 June 1995, Bronxville, New York, USA
7 April 1975, Madrid, Spain
2 July 2004, Tifton, Georgia, USA
September 20, 2018
...if your attitude is that life is meaningless and then you die, you may want to give this one a pass. Fogelman clearly believes life has meaning, even if we can't always see it for ourselves.September 20, 2018
The less said about Life Itself -- a truly zany multi-timeline melodrama from the creator of that NBC show that makes everyone cry -- the better.September 20, 2018
If you are up for a good cry - in fact, if you crave one - you will probably get it. But it may be more of a reflex than anything.September 20, 2018
None of the characters in Life Itself are interesting on their own, so Fogelman attempts to gin them up some fake pathos through death, either theirs or someone near them.September 20, 2018
Aimless incoherent treacle.September 20, 2018
There is about as much honesty and genuine emotion in this film as you would find in a damage-control ExxonMobil commercial.September 20, 2018
In Life Itself, everyone's fate is in the hands of Fogelman, and he wields that power with terrible cruelty.September 20, 2018
This is a film that understands that life is messy but doesn't understand how to express that in any way that even remotely resembles life as we know it.September 20, 2018
Fogelman tries to tug on the heartstrings by giving us a story full of people who go through some harrowing, emotional ordeals, but it constantly rings hollow.September 20, 2018
Overall, his movie feels like an entire season of This Is Us compressed into two frustratingly uneven hours of tearjerking and grief porn.September 20, 2018
One almost has to admire how perfectly awful Life Itself is.September 20, 2018
The worst thing about Life Itself is not that it is emotionally sadistic. It's just how much it wants to be emotionally sadistic, while missing the mark by a mile.