Personal Name:
Taymor, Julie, 1952- film director, screenwriter.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (134 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Title from title frame.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Note:"Across the universe sweeps you up on a wave of terrific Beatles songs"--Container.
Note:Special features include: deleted scene; commentary with director Julie Taymor and music producer/composer Elliot Goldenthal; 2 on-set performances of "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite"; photo gallery.
Note:Girl -- Hold me tight -- All my loving -- I want to hold your hand -- With a little help from my friends -- It won't be long -- I've just seen a face -- Let it be -- Come together -- Why don't we do it in the road -- If I fell -- I want you (she's so heavy) -- Dear Prudence -- I am the walrus -- Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite -- Because -- Something -- Oh! darling -- Strawberry fields forever -- Revolution -- While my guitar gently weeps -- Across the universe -- Helter skelter -- Happiness is a warm gun -- A day in the life -- Blackbird -- Hey Jude -- Don't let me down -- All you need is love -- Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Note:Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language.