42 Up (1999) [N/A]
Featuring:
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Directed by:
Michael Apted
Release Date:
November 17, 1999
Original Title:
42 Up
Alternate Titles:
42: Forty Two Up
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Granada Television
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 133
In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children for the documentary "Seven Up". He's been back to film them every seven years. Now they are 42.
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
In 1964, a film crew interviewed seven-year-old English kids: five or six from privilege, a Yorkshire farm lad, East-End girls, and boys from a children's home. Every seven years, Michael Apted re-interviews those willing (two declined this time). At 42, careers are stuck or flourishing; marriages are strong, shaky, or over (and Bruce recently married for the first time). They're dealing with parents' dying, and children coming-of-age. One is a single mom with young sons. One is remarried, but how are the five children from his first marriage? Lyn and Jackie face health problems with down-to-earth lucidity. Neil, on the margin at 28 and 35, has a glorious story of friendship at 42.
