By Dustin Rowles | Film | June 26, 2024
Daniel Mason has a book called North Woods that’s all the rage right now. I haven’t read it yet, but the plot follows the story of one house — and all of its occupants — over three centuries. Robert Zemeckis’ latest film, Here, has a similar premise: It follows the events in one living room over the course of one century.
The couple at the center is played by Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, the Forrest Gump pair reteaming with Zemeckis, who seems to be obsessed with his brand of performance-capture techniques. Unfortunately, he hasn’t produced a legit hit in over a decade. The plot here follows characters played by Hanks and Wright over the course of their lifetimes, which means those performance-capture techniques are used to de-age Hanks and Wright in an unsettling way. They look like live-action Polar Express characters. But also, the kind of stories that follow people over the course of their lives are often able to deliver the kind of huge emotional wallops that I am vulnerable to.
That’s what the trailer suggests: Creepy but heartfelt.
Here arrives in theaters on November 15th.