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28 Up
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2hrs 16min
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1984
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Synopsis: While working on the BBC television documentary series The World in Action in 1963, director Michael Apted, in collaboration with Paul Almond, produced a feature-length study of 14 seven-year-old Britons. Titled 7 Up, the film drew its on-camera personnel from every part of the social strata. Apted and Almond invited the kids to expound extemporaneously upon their feelings, desires, and aspirations. Seven years later, the same 14 people were rounded up for Seven Times Seven, which brought their individual ... Full Synopsis
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With 28 Up, the fourth installment in the documentary series charting ordinary British citizens throughout their lives, director Michael Apted finds uncooperative behavior finally starting to claim some of his interview subjects. Two of the 14 children, who were first interviewed 21 years earlier, have opted out of the process, including the one who seemed the most burdened by the questioning in 21 ... Full Review
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