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The Age of Adaline #movie #timetravel

10/5/2015

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The film, The Age of Adaline was 12 years in the making. The first script began in 2003 by Screenwriter, J. Mills Goodloe. Salvador Paskowitz joined in, and after several rewrites, location changes and castings, it was finally released on April 25, 2015.
The film is about a girl born in 1908 on New Year’s Day. In 1937 when she was 29 years old, Adaline’s car runs off the road during a snowstorm. She ends up in a ravine of frigid water, goes into hyperthermia and her heart stops. But when the water is struck by lightning, she is revived, and something miraculous happens. She stops aging.
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Adaline remains 29 years of age for the next 78 years.
Blake lively (Gossip Girl, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Green Lantern) was cast in the leading role and does a fantastic job. She is just as believable as a modern woman in 2015 as she is in 1937, 1963, or 1996. 
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Ellen Burstyn plays Flemming, Adaline’s daughter, who in her later years had to pretend to be her grandmother, rather than her offspring.
Adaline loves deeply, but can never stay with the men she has relationships with, having to leave them before they can discover her secret. She also changes her name and identity every few years. Adaline’s 2015 love interest is Ellis Jones, played by Michiel Huisman. They meet at a New Year’s party. (Everything in this film happens on New Year’s) Ellis knows her as Jenny Larson.
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Ellis ends up taking Adaline to his home for his parent’s 50th anniversary party. His parents are William and Kathy Jones, played by Harrison Ford and Kathy Baker.
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SPOILER ALERT: The moment William Jones (Ford) sees Adaline, he recognizes her, calling her by her real name. But she quickly claims to be Adaline’s daughter. In a flashback, it is shown that he and Adaline were romantic back in the 1960s. As she always did, she left him. But she tells the aged William that Adaline loved him very much.
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Note: Anthony Ingruber played the young William Jones and manages to channel Harrison Ford’s looks and crooked smile. The actor even wants to play Han Solo.
William remains suspicious, and when he notices a scar on her hand, he then realizes she is his long lost love.

Harrison Ford is great in this role and the love he has for Adaline comes across well and believable.
The film comes to a very satisfying conclusion when the process that stopped Adaline from aging is duplicated… Yes, on New Year’s eve.
Directed by
Lee Toland Krieger

Produced by
Sidney Kimmel
Gary Lucchesi
Brett Ratner
Tom Rosenberg

Written by
J. Mills Goodloe
Salvador Paskowitz
Starring
Blake Lively
Michiel Huisman
Kathy Baker
Amanda Crew
Harrison Ford
Ellen Burstyn

Narrated by
Hugh Ross

Music by

Rob Simonse
This film is not time-travel in the strictest sense, but is a unique form of the genre. I highly recommend it.
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Speaking of love, Life and Death, don't forget to read my latest novel. CLICK> Pennies From Across the veil. 
3 Comments
Aileen Aroma
10/6/2015 08:17:43 am

Never heard of this movie! I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Thanks for sharing ;)

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Virginia Wright link
2/9/2016 07:51:26 am

I can't imagine being able to stay 29 years looking for most of my life. While others aged around me. I skipped over the spoiler alert. Great blog post!!

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Kathie Hamilton
3/15/2016 01:35:10 pm

Fantastic!!!! I am a reader, not to much of a movie watcher, but I now HAVE to SEE this movie!!! Thank You Dennis Higgins!!! I have enjoyed every word of your books, and Pennies From Across the Veil grabbed me from the first sentence, until the last. I cried, and I smiled throughout the book, and I LOVED every MOMENT!!!

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