Across the Universe

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

• vietnam war
• protest
• musical
• liverpool, england
• riot
• cultural difference
• university
• fantasy sequence
• anti war
• police arrest
• march
• woman director
• 1960s
• jukebox musical