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  • 42 Up
  • Opened November 17, 1999 | Runtime:2 hr. 15 min.
  • okay for children
  • A fascinating documentary from director Michael Apted, 42Up began checking in every seven years with a group of British schoolchildren to mark the group's ongoing lives at ages 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, and now 42. Highly recommended.
  • Cast: Andrew, Bruce, Charles
  • Genres: Documentary

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  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant...

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This series should be sealed in a time capsule. It is on my list of the 10...

  • 90
    L.A. Weekly | Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

    That nothing more monumental than an everyday life has occurred to any of the...

  • 90
    Village Voice | Amy Taubin

    The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive...

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