150 Word Review: 'Here' (2024)

There

Photo: TriStar Pictures

Low on drama but high in concept, director Robert Zemeckis' centuries-spanning tearjerker Here stars, first and foremost, the living room of a house sitting on a plot of ancient land once tread by dinosaurs, Native Americans, and Ben Franklin himself. And in that house, multiple generations of Americans live and die, including a husband and wife played by Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, reuniting with Zemeckis thirty years after they collaborated on Forrest Gump.

Using CGI and motion-capture technology, Zemeckis tells a story that is both vast and intimate, maudlin and cerebral. The movie begins in a prehistoric Eden and ends with a flat-screen TV hanging above a fireplace. Here is an adaptation of a graphic novel by Richard McGuire, and Zemeckis uses the comic book panel to transition between scenes and eras. Here is corny, but I was touched by the broadly painted melodrama. Time really does move fast.

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