Hereafter

Plot

A drama centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.

Release Year: 2010

Rating: 6.6/10 (42,966 voted)

Critic's Score: 56/100

Director:
Clint Eastwood

Stars: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard

Storyline
A drama centered on three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. George (Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (de France), a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might-or must-exist in the hereafter.

Cast:

Cécile De France
–

Marie Lelay

Thierry Neuvic
–

Didier

Cyndi Mayo Davis
–

Island Hotel Clerk

Lisa Griffiths
–

Stall Owner

Jessica Griffiths
–

Island Girl

Ferguson Reid
–

Rescuer

Derek Sakakura
–

Rescuer

Jay Mohr
–

Billy

Richard Kind
–

Christos

Matt Damon
–

George Lonegan

Charlie Creed-Miles
–

Photographer

Frankie McLaren
–

Marcus
/
Jason

George McLaren
–

Marcus
/
Jason

Lyndsey Marshal
–

Jackie

Rebekah Staton
–

Social Worker

Taglines:
Touched by death. Changed by life.

Details

Official Website:
Warner Bros. [Germany] |
Warner Bros. [France] |

Release Date: 22 October 2010

Filming Locations: Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Muswell Hill, London, England, UK

Box Office Details

Budget: $50,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $220,322
(USA)
(17 October 2010)
(6 Screens)

Gross: $103,800,000
(Worldwide)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

129 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

The restaurant in which Thierry Neuvic and Cécile De France have dinner is Sanderens, the restaurant of chef Alain Sanderens, who became a sensation when he relinquished his 3 stars and reopened the prestigious Lucas Carton under his own name – and with a more affordable menu. Since then, the place has regained 2 stars.

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs:
When Jason is hit by the Mercedes van, there is a shot from inside the car Jason's body is thrown onto showing him cracking the windshield. *** The view is not from inside the Mercedes van. This can be clearly seen as the camera pans away from the twins and the black car next to them has a cracked windshield. ***

Quotes:

George Lonegan:
Sometimes, I mean you know, knowing everything about someone, it seems nice, but really, maybe it's better to hold stuff back.

User Review

If we are Here now, we need an After

Rating: 9/10


On the way home from seeing this terrific movie, I stopped at a light,
a few cars in front waiting to turn right. Around us, the sun had just
set, a full white moon was high and the reflections of brake lights
bounced off gas stations and car dealerships.

What an amazing world we live in. There is so much in the five miles
between my house and the theater where I saw the movie that I could
never experience it all. Moments arrive and disappear and the the
people shift, move, appear and disappear.

I think most of us need some kind of assurance that it all goes on
forever, that our open windows aren't just blacked over and sealed at
death.

Clint Eastwood has made a quiet, reflective, thoughtful film on this
condition, this need for forever. It's not a flashy paranormal probe of
ghosts and goblins, spirits and such.

Taking three central lives we see our need for a hereafter from a
French woman who has experienced something before being revived, from a
twin boy who has lost his brother and from a lonely man who seems able
to capture something from beyond this life. Or perhaps he just captures
something from those who come to him.

Cecile De France is stunning as a television reporter who touches her
own death and returns. Frankie (or is it George) McLaren is good as the
young boy. And Matt Damon's restrained performance is a revelation.

Eastwood has the assured hand that allows long segments in French with
English subtitles and a juncture with two disasters and such a
touchy-feely subject, and yet it works. Quietly. Thoughtfully.

He also has the good sense to let us draw our own conclusions.