The Future

2011

Directed by Miranda July
72%
54%
Drama

Performance artist, writer and director Miranda July's follow up to 2005's Me, You and Everyone We Know, following a couple in... More

Performance artist, writer and director Miranda July's follow up to 2005's Me, You and Everyone We Know, following a couple in the grips of a pre-mid-life crisis, their impending adoption of a cat, and the time/space continuum.

"Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) live in a small Los Angeles apartment, have jobs they hate, and in one month they’ll adopt a stray cat named Paw Paw. Like a newborn baby, he’ll need around-the-clock care – he may die in six months, or it may take five years. Sophie and Jason are terrified of their looming loss of freedom. So with one month left, they quit their jobs, and the internet, to pursue their dreams – Sophie wants to create a dance, Jason wants simply to be guided by fate... Living in two terrifyingly vacant and different realities, Sophie and Jason must reunite with time, space and their own souls in order to come home." (Official Synopsis)

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The Future | Ratings & Reviews

72_%112 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
54_%4,284 reviews
Audience score rating

"For all the superficial hilarity of July's approach, a much sadder streak runs deep through the entire film, reinforced by Jon Brion's score (more tones than melody)."

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Variety

"Winningly weird or suffocated by whimsy? Magical or morose? July’s romantic fantasy of stagnation and romantic drift has depths, but they’re hidden behind walls of kookiness. The Future... is uncertain."

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Total Film

"The magical, metaphorical strain in The Future is what makes it powerful, unsettling and strange, as well as charming."

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The New York Times

"On the surface, this film is an enchanting meditation. At its core is the hard steel of individuality."

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Roger Ebert

"July's second film, while not quite as perfectly realised as her debut, nimbly avoids the 'sophomore slump', providing the curious with another window into her highly idiosyncratic world."

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