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28 Up

  • TV Movie
  • 19841984
  • 2h 16m
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8.2/10
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28 Up (1984)
DocumentaryBiography
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
IMDb RATING
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    • Michael Apted
  • Stars
    • Bruce Balden
    • Jacqueline Bassett
    • Symon Basterfield
    • Michael Apted
  • Stars
    • Bruce Balden
    • Jacqueline Bassett
    • Symon Basterfield
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    • 11User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    • Won 1 BAFTA Award

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    Bruce Balden
    Bruce Balden
    • Self
    • (as Bruce)
    Jacqueline Bassett
    Jacqueline Bassett
    • Self
    • (as Jackie)
    Symon Basterfield
    Symon Basterfield
    • Self
    • (as Simon)
    Andrew Brackfield
    Andrew Brackfield
    • Self
    • (as Andrew)
    John Brisby
    John Brisby
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as John)
    Peter Davies
    Peter Davies
    • Self
    • (as Peter)
    Suzanne Dewey
    Suzanne Dewey
    • Self
    • (as Suzi)
    Charles Furneaux
    Charles Furneaux
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Charles)
    Nicholas Hitchon
    Nicholas Hitchon
    • Self
    • (as Nick)
    Neil Hughes
    Neil Hughes
    • Self
    • (as Neil)
    Lynn Johnson
    Lynn Johnson
    • Self
    • (as Lynn)
    Paul Kligerman
    Paul Kligerman
    • Self
    • (as Paul)
    Susan Sullivan
    Susan Sullivan
    • Self
    • (as Sue)
    Tony Walker
    Tony Walker
    • Self
    • (as Tony)
    Michael Apted
    Michael Apted
    • Interviewer
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Michelle Murphy
    • Self (age 7, with Tony)
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
      • Michael Apted
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    • Trivia
      Peter Davies lost his job as a teacher because of the anti-Thatcher comments he made in this film.
    • Quotes

      Neil Hughes: If the state didn't give us any money, it would probably just mean crime and I'm glad I don't have to steal to keep myself alive. If the money runs out then for a few days there's nowhere to go and that's all you can do, I simply have to find the warmest shed I can find.

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    10/10
    Us and Neil
    In 28 Up, it seems like the 'the Man' part of the 'Give me a Child' bit that is quoted in every Up movie is starting to take shape, for the men and women. Or, at least, most of them. We see the gradual progression of life start to take shape: careers, over the course of the people's 20's, have been sought out, and they've gotten married and/or had children. Some, in fact, who weren't married before have been changed for the better it would seem by being married (i.e. Jackie), and some aren't living in Britain anymore (one is a physicist living in America with his wife, another has lived in Australia for quite a long time).

    The series in this 'episode' film centers around the real progress into adulthood, and how the interviewees now feel about how their lives, loves, careers have progressed. A given topic that comes up is how they think they've changed since being in the first film at seven, and the consensus, a strong one presented, is that a person is at least, potentially, there at the age, but needs to grow (like a seed). It's fascinating too to see how the children in groups have progressed about as expected, or with some relativity. For example the three boys, now adults, sitting in the same line (albeit one of them declined to be interviewed, ironic since he works for the BBC in 1985), one of whom a prissy, upper class citizen, and another not so much, based on hair-length perhaps.

    In general 28 Up seems to view the subjects as they would be naturally by this point as adults, and some, like the bricklayer, revealed how they might turn out when let loose in the 'playground' at age seven, some building a house and some, well, not (another fascinating subject like this is the former jockey turned cab driver). And yet a good deal of these subjects, at least for the moment of 28, look set for their life, either with a current wife or kids or a steady income at something they've worked for... which brings us to Neil. He's the one who, at 28, has no current prospects, who was happy as a child but now is disillusioned to the fact that he doesn't have a career or much of a life, but in a way is fine with that (he applied to Oxford, but didn't get in). He's the stark, fascinating contrast that gives 28 Up a great sense of depth. The class system in Britain, or just in how it sets up these kids, is revealed in the highs, mediums and lows of living, and Neil is certainly a low, but not feeling bad about it (at the least, he says, he can eat now, unlike some years before).
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      • February 1986 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • Latin
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      • Granada Television
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    • 2 hours 16 minutes
      • Black and White
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      • Mono

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