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Director Julie Taymor brought the "magical realism" of her Broadway work (e.g., The Lion King ) to the screen, creating a film that functions almost as a series of surreal music videos.

The result is a film where names matter. The protagonist is Jude (Jim Sturgess), a dockworker from Liverpool who travels to America to find his estranged father. He falls for Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a sheltered suburban girl whose worldview expands as the political climate darkens. Along the way, they encounter a cast of characters who feel plucked directly from song lyrics: the charismatic drifter Max (Joe Anderson), his sultry sister Sadie (Dana Fuchs), the guitar-wielding Jo-Jo (Martin Luther McCoy), and the heartbroken Prudence (T.V. Carpio). across the universe -2007-

The film uses color like a weapon. The first half is saturated with the neon glow of 60s pop art; the second half bleaches into the gray-brown mud of Vietnam and the harsh fluorescent lights of army hospitals. Director Julie Taymor brought the "magical realism" of

Audiences, however, embraced it. The film grossed nearly $30 million domestically (a modest sum, but a profit against its $45 million budget due to DVD sales) and won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. He falls for Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a

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: Scenes often feature elaborate, expressive sequences, such as a macabre ballet in an Army induction center set to "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". Soundtrack : Produced by T Bone Burnett Elliot Goldenthal