Robert Zemeckis has never been afraid to experiment. He did so marvelously with the blend of live action and animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and so-so as one of the first major filmmakers to utilize motion-capture technology for The Polar Express. His latest movie experiment, Here, tells a story of the lives lived in a single location from the dawn of the dinosaurs to today, all from a single, unmoving perspective.
Thankfully the movie skims over the dinosaurs pretty quickly and instead focuses on a time frame of about 400 years or so, focusing on different families that live in the same house. We spend most of the time with two generations of a family as they go through life, love and death, portrayed primarily by Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, Zemeckis' Forrest Gump co-stars, reuniting for the first time in 30 years. Adding to it all, the script was written by Forrest Gump's Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth.
