The marketing of the film Here has heavily emphasized its status as a Forrest Gump reunion for Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis. (The script is also from Gump screenwriters Zemeckis and Eric Roth.) Whether or not a Forrest Gump reunion was something people were looking for 30 years after the fact, Here does have a lot in common with its predecessor, including the sense that it's sometimes more tricky — both technically and narratively — than good.
Based on a graphic novel by Richard McGuire, Here is filmed from one single point of view: the corner of a living room somewhere in the United States. (Presumably somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, for reasons that relate to Benjamin Franklin. It's a long story.
Literally.) The core of the film is the relationship between Richard (Hanks) and Margaret (Wright), whom we meet as teenagers as they're falling in love and then follow all the way until they're 80. But on top of their story, Here also shows vignettes of other lives in the house over time: there’s Richard's parents, along with the people who lived there in the earliest part of the 20th century, a couple in the 1920s, and even a family during COVID-19 after Richard and Margaret have left.
Moreover, we see the view from the same spot before the house was even built, when a couple billed only as Indigenous Man and Indigenous Woman had warm moments there. (And when dinosaurs were there, and during colonial times, and yes, this is where Ben Franklin enters i.
