What is Hereafter about?
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Three disparate lives, each profoundly touched by death, navigate melancholy and the unknown with earnest intimacy.
Intimate. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on YouTube (free).
Hereafter parents guide
No surprises for a PG-13: no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- None noted
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Directed byClint Eastwood
StarringMatt Damon, Cécile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic, Cyndi Mayo-Akeo, Lisa Griffiths
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