Across the Universe (Blu-ray)

Across the Universe, from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. 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. With a cameo by Bono, Across the Universe is 'the kind of movie you watch again, like listening to a favorite album.' (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun Times).

Starring: Eddie Izzard, James Urbaniak, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, Aisha de Haas, Angela Mounsey, Christopher Tierney, Curtis Holbrook, Erin Elliott, John Jeffrey Martin, Matt Caplan, T.R. Boyce, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Robert Clohessy, Willard Buell, Dylan Baker, Linda Emond, Lynn Cohen, Bill Irwin, Carol Woods, Elain Graham, Deidre Goodwin, Joe Cocker, Jacob Pitts, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Harry Lennix, Bono, Kiva Dawson, Karine Plantadit-Bageot, Ron Cephas Jones, Salma Hayek, Luke Cresswell, Jarlath Conroy, Saycon Sengbloh, Sam Kitchin, Frank Hopf, Mark Lewis, Jennifer Van Dyck, Mark Stewart, Sean Martin Hingston, Patrick O'Neill, Luis Salgado, Angelo Fraboni, Antonique Smith, Ryan Kelly, Adesola A Osakalumi, Martin Samuel, Yassmin Alers, Staceyanne Chin, T.V. Carpio, Ching Valdes-Aran, Halley Wegryn Gross, Dan Weltner, Mari Koda, Marcos Santana, Greg Graham

Director: Jennifer Todd, Matthew Gross, Suzanne Todd

Rating: PG13