Life Itself

From the creator of THIS IS US.

We follow a young New York couple as they go from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, while the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes. The film exhibits a sharp divide between critical appraisal and popular appeal.

117 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Drama, Romance, On the art circuit.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin, Jean Smart, Olivia Cooke
Director	Dan Fogelman
Screenplay	Dan Fogelman
Music	Federico Jusid
Cinematography	Brett Pawlak
Editing	Julie Monroe
Made in	2018
Produced by	FilmNation Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Nostromo Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Romantic drama
Language	Strong, frequent, justified by context. Sometimes demeaning, mainly conversational and exclamatory.
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, fairly frequent, realistic, graphic images of blood and trauma, physical and emotional violence.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 15 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
24.com Lindsey Bahr In fact, nothing much in Life Itself feels like life itself. It is too polished, too winking, too big and too much to be all that relatable, even with a cast as appealing as this	5
ScreenIt Jim Judy There are some positives to be had, but the negatives ultimately outweigh them.	9
Metacritic.com 36 critics	4
Rottentomatoes critics 97 critics	7
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A mawkish melodrama that means less the more it tries to say, Life Itself suggests writer-director Dan Fogelman’s talents are best suited to television.	2
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	10
CommonSenseMedia Sandie Angulo Chen Too-emotional melodrama has violence, language, drinking.	5
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 13 users	10
Rottentomatoes users 571 users	15
IMDB 1255 Netizens	12
The Movie DB Community	16
Average .. 43%	9