A Technical Experience in Here, The Uniform: A Bittersweet Teen Romance

In a single location passes the entirety of human history from the primordial age through the millennia, until the plot of land is a suburban house in the United States occupied by the Young family.

- Whang Yee Ling

HERE (PG13) 104 minutes, opens on April 3 ★★★★☆

The story: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright play newlyweds Richard and Margaret, who move in with his alcoholic war veteran dad (Paul Bettany) and housewife mum (Kelly Reilly) in 1963 and raise their daughter.

American director Robert Zemeckis reunites his Forrest Gump (1994) stars Hanks and Wright with screenwriter Eric Roth. Richard, though, is no Gump, who toured 20th-century America's epochal events and won Hanks a Best Actor Oscar.

He and all other characters are, for the duration, confined in the living room where the camera observes their joy, sadness, love, holiday celebrations, and changing tastes in sofas.

Hanks, 68, and Wright, 58, are digitally aged from teens into octogenarians over the six decades of their intergenerational drama based on American graphic artist Richard McGuire's 2014 novel.

Zemeckis is an innovator, a pioneer of live-action animation (