What is Across the Universe (movie)?
{{Infobox movie |name = Across the Universe |image = |caption = |writer = [[Julie Taymor]]<br>Dick Clement<br>Ian La Frenais |starring = [[Jim Sturgess]]<br>[[Evan Rachel Wood]]<br>[[Joe Anderson]] |director = [[Julie Taymor]] |producer = Matthew Gross<br>[[Jennifer Todd]]<br>Suzanne Todd |music = [[Elliot Goldenthal]]<br>[[The Beatles]] |distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] |released = September 14, 2007 ([[Toronto International Film Festival|TIFF]])<br /> October 12, 2007 ([[United States|US]] and [[United Kingdom|UK]]) |runtime = 120 mins |language = English |budget = $45,000,000 |gross = $29.6 million<ref>{{cite web |title=Across the Universe |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0445922/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |accessdate=January 11, 2024}}</ref> }} '''''Across the Universe''''' is a [[musical movie]] made in 2007. It is [[movie director|directed]] by [[Julie Taymor]] and [[screenplay|written]] by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement. The main characters are played by [[Evan Rachel Wood]] and [[Jim Sturgess]]. There are also other famous actors and singers who appear in the movie: [[Bono]], who plays ''Dr. Robert'', [[Eddie Izzard]] as ''Mr. Kite'', [[Dana Fuchs]] as a [[musician]] called ''Sexy Sadie'', and [[Salma Hayek]] as a [[nurse]]. The movie was [[movie release|released]] in [[North America]] on October 12, 2007. ==Plot== The story starts in the early 1960s. A young ship builder from [[Liverpool, England|Liverpool]] named Jude (played by [[Jim Sturgess]]) travels by ship to the [[United States]] in search of his American [[GI (military)|G.I.]] father called Wes (Played by Robert Clohessy). They have never met and his father does not know Jude exists. While looking for his father at [[Princeton University|Princeton]], Jude makes friends with somebody called Max (Played by [[Joe Anderson]]), a rebellious young man from a rich background, and Max's sister Lucy (Played by [[Evan Rachel Wood]]). When Max drops out of college and moves to [[New York City]], Jude goes with him. Max w