Andrew Brackfield, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett
In 1964, director Michael Apted recorded the future ambitions of a group of 7-year-old children for the documentary 7 Up, revisiting them for an interview every seven years. Now that his subjects are ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
Stats: 94 reviews
I watched this and loved it very cool how they did this I wish some one would do another and go into more detail and not skip so meny years.
first of all, this five star rating is a general rating to the whole series, aswel as the review. secondly, its a magnificent study, more than anything else. more than the label of documentary or tv show. I saw the whole series, from when the subjects were still children, until t...( read more)
It continues. We are still missing three of the "kids" as one who came back last time dropped out again and one that was missing in the last installment has returned.
As the folks head into the middle years of their lives they all seem to be leveling out. Sure there were hard t...( read more)
Up Series - GENERAL REVIEW
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT series to watch these movies...started watching them all in order in 2007...
(by coincidence one of the subjects ends up living in Madison, WI!)
So very interesting to watch this non-statistically-relevant social experiment unfold...( read more)
The voyeur/humanist part of me adores this movie and series. The intensely private part of me cringes at my enjoyment. It's what I go through each time I watch a documentary that isn't dealing with war crimes or a person's cause. A group of people agreed to be documented by fi...( read more)
Another great installment of this series. I love catching up on them all, and for me, the three that I enjoy seeing again each time are Bruce, Nick and Neil.
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