The Age of Adaline
Short description
The Age of Adaline centres on Adaline Bowman, a woman born at the start of the twentieth century who, after an accident, stops ageing at twenty-nine. She spends decades keeping her condition hidden, moving on before anyone can get too close, and living much of that time alone. When she meets the philanthropist Ellis Jones, she begins to reconsider that isolation and the possibility of telling someone the truth. A weekend with his parents, William and Kathy, brings her secret closer to the surface and forces her toward a decision.
Lee Toland Krieger directed the film, his second feature after Celeste & Jesse Forever in 2012, from a screenplay by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz. Blake Lively plays Adaline, with Michiel Huisman as Ellis, Harrison Ford as William, Ellen Burstyn as Flemming, and Kathy Baker and Amanda Crew among the supporting cast of thirty-five credited performers. Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Sidney Kimmel produced the Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production for Lionsgate.
Released in April 2015, the film runs 112 minutes and cost about 25 million dollars, returning roughly 66 million worldwide. Audiences rate it 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from around 227,000 votes and 7.5 out of 10 on TMDB from just over 7,200 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 5.6 out of 10 from 172 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Natalie Portman turned down the lead role in this film.
- Anthony Ingruber landed the role in the film due to his physical resemblance to a young Harrison Ford.
- In 2010, it was planned that Katherine Heigl would play the lead role in the film, and the role of Fleming would go to Angela Lansbury.
- When Ellis is on the phone, and Adaline takes his glass of whiskey, the camera pulls back to Ellis after Adaline leaves. At that moment, another glass appears on the table.
- William's car in the scene at his house is a mid-2000s Grand Cherokee Laredo Jeep. When he argues with Adaline, the car model is visible as older than in previous scenes. However, when Ellis goes after Adaline, the car is the same as the one at William's house. However, as soon as he leaves William’s house, it’s a newer model that looks completely different.
- To ensure authenticity for scenes set in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, the filmmakers used anamorphic lenses and limited the use of the 'Steadycam' camera stabilization system.
- The story that San Francisco is built on the remains of ships has historical basis. In the mid-19th century, many people arrived here during the Gold Rush, and the ships they arrived on were simply left to rot in the bay. Some of the abandoned ships were used as warehouses, boarding houses, prisons, and even churches. The city grew, land became scarce, and according to the law, if a ship sank, one could claim a piece of the seabed directly beneath it. Sometime later, the shallow bay with shipwrecks protruding everywhere began to be filled in, removing hills from the continental part of the shore. Today, the business district of the city essentially stands on reclaimed land. Part of the city's subway line, for example, was laid directly through the hull of one of the ships. Approximately 500 shipwrecks have been discovered to date.
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