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      The Future

      2011, Drama, 1h 31m

      112 Reviews 2,500+ Ratings

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      A dark and whimsical exploration of human existence that challenges viewers as much as it rewards them. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      In Los Angeles, longtime lovers (Hamish Linklater, Miranda July) make radical changes in their lives after deciding to adopt a sickly stray cat.

      • Rating: R (Some Sexual Content)

      • Genre: Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Miranda July

      • Producer: Gina Kwon, Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner

      • Writer: Miranda July

      • Release Date (Theaters):  limited

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $568.4K

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      • Distributor: Roadside Attractions

      • Production Co: GNK

      Cast & Crew

      Miranda July
      Angela Trimbur
      Mary Passeri
      Miranda July
      Gina Kwon
      Sue Bruce Smith
      Andrew Bird
      Jon Brion
      Elliott Hostetter

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      • Jun 06, 2014

        I thought "Me and You and Everyone We Know" was eccentric enough but "The Future" had multiple layers of eccentricity, which worked and didn't work to the film's advantage. I was swaying back and forth from liking it to finding it pointless to pondering its themes to disliking the characters of "The Future."

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      • Apr 08, 2014

        The Future is really a life-affirming film, once you look past its deep undertones of self-loathing and despair.

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      • Aug 20, 2013

        Didn't hold my attention but I felt like it should have. I want to give it another chance simply because it has a guy stuck in time trying to move the moon and a cat that talks before getting put down with an extremely sad monologue.

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      • Dec 17, 2012

        In "The Future," Jason(Hamish Linklater) and Sophie(Miranda July, who also wrote, directed and provided the voice of the cat) find a stray cat. They take him to a vet where they are informed he is very sick and will take a month to recover. In the meantime, Jason buys a drawing before they both take stock of their lives. Realizing how limited their time is, both quit their jobs, Jason as tech support and Sophie as a dance teacher. This leaves them plenty of time to follow their hearts' desire, if not pay their bills. So Jason signs up to go door to door for an environmental cause all over Los Angeles while Sophie, getting inspiration from a now former co-worker, decides to post her performing a dance online every day for a month. Give Miranda July some credit, she has some very heady ideas she wants to explore with her latest movie "The Future" like mortality, time and what we decide to do with it. The problem here is not that the movie is strange; it is that it is not strange enough. Considering the trouble she has in creating believable characters, why not just go full Akerman instead or try something truly avant garde? And as an artist herself, July strangely has little empathy for anybody else's artistic pretensions. Admittedly, some of the movie is funny, but never intentionally. That's not to mention a couple of very odd subplots and only one sequence that speaks fully to the movie's themes and then awkwardly so.

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