56 Up (2013)

56 Up

In Movie Theaters January 4, 2013

56 Up release date Janaury 4, 2013
DOCUMENTARY
Directed By: Michael Apted
Studio: First Run
Rating: Not Rated
56 Up Movie Box Office report:
Opening Weekend: $22,088
Number of Theaters: 1
Total Gross: TBD
56 UP Official Website: www.firstrunfeatures.com/56up
DVD Release Date: TBD

 

56 Up Theatrical Trailer (2013)

They’ve become almost like old friends, and now we have another chance to catch up.

For the past half century, fans of English filmmaker Michael Apted’s Up series have gotten to check in with the group of men and women he has been interviewing every seven years since they were 7-year-olds gathered to romp at a London playground for the 1964 British TV documentary, 7 Up!

The latest film in Apted’s series, 56 Up, has just announced its American opening date. Tony the cab driver, Bruce the teacher, Suzy the suburban matron and the rest, now all 56-year-olds, will be back when the new documentary screens at this weekend’s Hamptons Film Festival. It will begin showing at New York’s IFC Center on January 4, and a run across the U.S. will follow.

Since its start, the series has offered a time-lapse picture of how the impact of the class system has changed and yet how it remains very much in place in British society.

Who can forget the three privileged little boys, sitting together on a couch in their school uniforms, offering snooty opinions in the first film as to why they were glad to attend an elite school that charged tuition? Otherwise, as one put it, “Schools would be so nasty and crowded,” while his mate chimed in, “And poor people would come rushing in.”