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.
Direction
Taymor turns every number into pure theatrical anarchy.
Production
Set design that ate and left no crumbs.
Cinematography
Colors so saturated they should be illegal.
Director
Julie Taymor
Evan Rachel Wood
Lucy Carrigan
Jim Sturgess
Jude
Joe Anderson
Max Carrigan
Dana Fuchs
Sadie
Martin Luther
Jo-Jo
T.V. Carpio
Prudence
Spencer Liff
Daniel
Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Molly
Nicholas Lumley
Cyril
Robert Clohessy
Wesley "Wes" Huber (Jude's Father)
Christopher Tierney
Dorm Buddy / Dancer
Curtis Holbrook
Dorm Buddy
Bill Buell
Old Guy at Tavern
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Julie Taymor fought the studio to keep the Vietnam hallucination sequence; they wanted it cut for being too abstract.
Released in 2007, the film's anti-war messaging landed during the Iraq War surge, making its 1960s parallels uncomfortably immediate for audiences.
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