History Film / AcrossTheUniverse

* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Lucy is a young woman from a wealthy {{WASP}} family who becomes more and more entrenched in the anti-war movement.

2007 JukeboxMusical film featuring songs written by Music/TheBeatles. It was directed by Julie Taymor.

* HospitalHottie: The Bang, Bang, Shoot, Shoot Nurse played by Salma Hayek, is suitably sultry.

* TheSixties: Set in the 1960s, with the Detroit riots and the anti-Vietnam War rallies being plot points.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Prudence is a lesbian and played by an actress of Asian descent.

%%* SpiritualSuccessor: A few critics referred to this film as "''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' done right."

** Another great example is "I Want You" A song about lust and how sexy (heavy) the subject is. In the film the song is set to Uncle Sam's pointing finger on the Army recruiting poster, "I Want You!" during Max's draft board examination. And when the "She's so heavy!" chorus begins, it cuts to a shot of the Army recruits being forced to carry the Statue of Liberty on their shoulders.

* BlackComedyRape: When the gang is trying to help Max find a way to get out of his conscription, Prudence suggests "Tell them you're a pedophile, and you can't wait to molest all the little girls who look like me!"

* ArtisticStimulation
* Music/TheBeatles
* BetaCouple: Averted with Sadie and Jojo, who get together fairly easily, but run into relationship troubles later on.
* BigApplesauce

* DeathNotification: For the mother of Lucy's boyfriend, right after Lucy [[TemptingFate sings about how they'll be together soon]].
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: It's Julie Taymor in top form. What else would you expect?

* DomesticAbuse: The guy Prudence was living with when she first got to the village.

* GriefSong: "Girl". See TheCoverChangesTheMeaning above.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Lucy.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Max and Jude.

* HospitalHottie: The Bang, Bang, Shoot, Shoot Nurse played by Salma Hayek.

* SpiritualSequel: To the movie version of ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''.
* SpiritualSuccessor: A few critics referred to this film as "''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' done right."

* StrollingThroughTheChaos: Prudence's first song.
* SurvivalMantra: The reprise of ''Revolution''.

* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked by the soldiers in the "I Want You" sequence.

* WaxingLyrical: There are multiple examples, all with Beatles songs, of course.
* WelcomeToTheBigCity: "Come Together" for Jojo. Downplayed, since Jojo was from Detroit, so he reacts to his new surroundings with mild interest rather than wide-eyed wonder or nervousness.

* TheCameo: In order: Music/JoeCocker as a hobo, a pimp, and an aging hippy singing "Come Together", [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]] as a wacky Creator/KenKesey {{Expy}} singing "I Am the Walrus" (and [[LargeHam ACTING]]), Creator/EddieIzzard as Mr. Kite, and Creator/SalmaHayek times 6 as a [[HelloNurse sexy nurse.]]

-->'''Jude:''' Where are you taking me?
-->'''Lucy:''' Down the rabbit-hole!

%%* [[CoolCar Cool Bus]]: Especially if you're on hallucinogens.

--->'''College buddies:''' Would you believe in a love at first sight?\\

-->'''Recruiter''': ''"Any reason why you shouldn't be in this man's army, son?"''
-->'''Max''': "''I'm a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung?"
-->'''Recruiter''': ''"As long as you don't have flat-feet."''

It stars Jim Sturgess as (Hey) Jude and Creator/EvanRachelWood as Lucy (In The Sky With Diamonds), whose romance is the central plot that unfolds over the backdrop of TheSixties.

Jude Feeney is an [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed aimless young man from Liverpool]] who heads to America in hopes of finding his absent father, who knew his mother in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but had never been told that Jude was born. When the man proves to be something of a disappointment, he falls in with UsefulNotes/IvyLeague frat boy Max (well's Silver Hammer[[note]]not sung in the film[[/note]]) Carrigan. (Max helped him find his dad; Jude helped Max escape campus authorities; it went on from there.) The two move to New York with Max's sister Lucy (in the Sky with Diamonds). Jude finds himself falling for Lucy, who willingly reciprocates.

** Sadie and [=JoJo=] are very obviously [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed fictitious counterparts]] to Music/JanisJoplin and Music/JimiHendrix. The former's performance of "Helter Skelter" is reminiscent of Joplin's singing style and voice.

->''"All you need is love, love''
->''Love is all you need"''

* BuffySpeak: [[Creator/EddieIzzard Mr. Kite]] in his [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment musical number]].

* TheCameo: In order: Music/JoeCocker as a hobo, a pimp, and an aging hippy singing "Come Together", [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]] as a wacky Creator/KenKesey {{Expy}} singing "I Am the Walrus" (and [[LargeHam ACTING]]), Creator/EddieIzzard as Mr. Kite, and Creator/SalmaHayek times 6 as a [[HelloNurse sexy nurse.]] Except for Salma Hayek, all qualify as [[OneSceneWonder One Song Wonders]].

** One particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} example of this is "Girl"; though it only uses one verse, the orchestration and out-of-context lyrics changes the song from a lament about [[YokoOhNo a man whose girlfriend's presence is putting serious strain on his social life with his buddies]], to a simple ballad about a lost love.

* [[CoolCar Cool Bus]]: Especially if you're on hallucinogens.

* CrowdSong: The latter half of "Hey Jude", natch.

* EarnYourHappyEnding
* ElevenOClockNumber: "Hey Jude".
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** With the song "A Little Help from My Friends"
-->'''College buddies:''' Would you believe in a love at first sight?
-->'''Jude:''' ''[sarcastically]'' Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.
** ...and then he sees Lucy.

* JukeboxMusical
* JumpScare: When Lucy is nearly shot.
* LaResistance: Lucy joins a group of anti-war activists following Max's conscription. [[spoiler: TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized.]]

-->"TIME...is not on our hands, people. Time is slippin' through 'em. We got to transcend the bullshit...and FAST!"
** Never knock the way another cat swings.

* MatchCut: During "Strawberry Fields Forever," between the strawberries Jude is painting and throwing, and the bombs the US Army is dropping.

* MeaningfulName: Every character with a name had it derived from a Beatles song.

* SayMyName

* TheSixties

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: It's a JukeboxMusical, after all.

* WelcomeToTheBigCity: "Come Together" for Jojo. Of course, Jojo was from Detroit, so he reacts to his new surroundings with mild interest rather than wide-eyed wonder or nervousness.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The anti-war group Lucy is in turns violent after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_protests_of_1968Columbia University occupation]] gets shut down. She walks in on them building pipe bombs, and says sorrowfully that she thought it was the government who used them. Later they [[HoistByHisOwnPetard accidentally blow themselves up]].

* {{Conscription}}: Max faces being drafted, and discusses what to do with the others. He doesn't want to defy the government and go to prison, or flee for Canada. In the end he tries to fake an illness for a medical exemption, which doesn't work. He goes off to Vietnam, gets wounded, and then returns home.

* TitleDrop: Done twice, once in the song the movie gets its title from, and once by Mr. Kite

* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar: Naturally.

* {{Gayngst}}: Prudence spends a while of time angsting about not being able to be with her crush of the moment. It doesn't help that she has a habit of falling for straight women who are already in relationships.

* {{Conscription}}

* CreatorProvincialism: Despite the entire film being about a ''British'' band from Liverpool a huge chunk of the script takes place in the USA and has an American love-interest.

Jude Feeney is an [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed aimless young man from Liverpool]] who heads to America in hopes of finding his absent father, who knew his mother in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but had never been told that Jude was born. When the man proves to be something of a disappointment, he falls in with UsefulNotes/IvyLeague frat boy Max (well's Silver Hammer[[note]]not sung in the film[[/note]]) Carrigan. (Max helped him find his dad; Jude helped Max escape campus authorities; it went on from there.) The two move to New York with Max's sister Lucy. Jude finds himself falling for Lucy, who willingly reciprocates.

* WhamShot: After Lucy chooses staying with the activist group over her relationship with Jude, she returns to their headquarters one night to find [[spoiler:the place completely deserted, with even the posters torn from the walls]]. She hears a mysterious sound from upstairs and follows it to find an even bigger wham - [[spoilers:the members of the group, secretly ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters building pipe bombs]]'']].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: With the song "A Little Help from My Friends"

* LargeHam: ''Bono'' as Doctor Robert.

Jude Feeney is an [[{{Expy}} aimless young man from Liverpool]] who heads to America in hopes of finding his absent father, who knew his mother in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but had never been told that Jude was born. When the man proves to be something of a disappointment, he falls in with UsefulNotes/IvyLeague frat boy Max (... well's Silver Hammer, not sung in the film) Carrigan. (Max helped him find his dad; Jude helped Max escape campus authorities; it went on from there.) The two move to New York with Max's sister Lucy. Jude finds himself falling for Lucy, who willingly reciprocates.

* SpiritualSequel: To the movie version of ''{{Hair}}''.