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One Direction: This Is Us

Play trailer Poster for One Direction: This Is Us PG Released Aug 30, 2013 1h 35m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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Groomed for stardom by "X-Factor's" Simon Cowell, the members of pop supergroup One Direction -- Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne -- have emerged as a worldwide phenomenon. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock follows the young singers on their 2012-2013 world tour and mixes live concert footage with behind-the-scenes interviews and antics. Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, actor-comic Chris Rock and filmmaker Martin Scorsese also drop by to meet the guys.
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It's mostly for the converted, but One Direction: This Is Us will be fun for fans -- and it offers just enough slickly edited concert footage to entertain the casual viewer.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh metro.co.uk It smells less like teen spirit than money, yet it bottles the carefree zest of pure pop so irresistably even non-Directioners will find themselves happily bip-bip-bopping along. Rated: 3/5 Sep 5, 2017 Full Review Christy Lemire RogerEbert.com This Is Us does what it needs to do for its target audience. But anyone looking for actual substance or insight will be disappointed and maybe even a little bored with its repetitive nature. Rated: 2/4 Aug 31, 2013 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle [It] amounts to little more than a big, wet kiss to the group's worldwide legions of young, female fans Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 30, 2013 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com If your teen or 'tween is a fan you can certainly go far more wrong than taking them to this light yet reasonably entertaining band. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Brandy McDonnell The Oklahoman "This Is Us" is packed with nonstop energy and cheeky good fun, courtesy of its likable young leads. Aug 7, 2018 Full Review Leah Sydney Showbiz 411 The film is just plain fun to watch and the music is poppy and quite lovely at times. Jun 22, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Michael M Boring and depressing Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/01/25 Full Review Daniel B Seas o no fan de One Direcion no se puede negar el impacto mediático de esta banda. Un recorrido aunque un poco más veloz del que me gustaría muy satisfactorio; el ascenso de chicos ingleses normales a un estrellato colosal. Acompañado de muy buenas canciones de la banda. El que hay detrás de cada show y ver el lado humano de cada uno; un lado humano que muchas veces olvidamos que los artistas de este nivel tienen. Es reconfortante ver cada aspecto de tanto su vida mediática como su vida personal. Lo estresante que puede llegar a ser un tour global y la tranquilidad de regresar al lugar donde todo comenzó. Si eres fan de 1D te lo vas a pasar fenomenal, y si no te va a entretener, con historias y curiosidades de cada lugar que visitan, el que hacían antes de cada concierto y el gran impacto que llegaron a tener, hay un momento con Martin Scorsese que fue lo que más disfrute. A mi en lo personal soy más fan de las canciones que vinieron después de esta película y aún más del increíble momento que está viviendo como solista Harry Styles y en las asombrosas películas que a salido, es asombroso ver como empezó todo y aunque pueda parecer opaco por su separación actual, como dijo Niall Horan "Espero que recuerden a 1D como chicos que se la pasaban increíble en el escenario". Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/23/22 Full Review Audience Member Excellence Excellent Extreme Extremely Like Likely Love Lovely Excellency Great Perfect Excellently WWE Born To Race 2011 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/28/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a bio film about One Direction's lives at home and on the road. I love them so much. I hope they make another film one day. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Esta bastante fresca la pelicula Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved this movie, wish I could see what youtube videos of 1D can capture though. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Morgan Spurlock

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Niall Horan

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Zayn Malik

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Liam Payne

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Harry Styles

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Louis Tomlinson

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Synopsis Groomed for stardom by "X-Factor's" Simon Cowell, the members of pop supergroup One Direction -- Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne -- have emerged as a worldwide phenomenon. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock follows the young singers on their 2012-2013 world tour and mixes live concert footage with behind-the-scenes interviews and antics. Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, actor-comic Chris Rock and filmmaker Martin Scorsese also drop by to meet the guys.
Director
Morgan Spurlock
Producer
Simon Cowell, Adam Milano, Morgan Spurlock, Ben Winston
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Syco Entertainment, Modest! Management
Rating
PG (Mild Language)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 30, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 13, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.9M
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Datasat, SDDS
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