Trailer for Anna Kendrik’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Anna Kendrick sure does love to sing, and it’s a good thing that she’s good at it! On top of Pitch Perfect 2 and Into the Woods, she has another musical coming out called The Last Five Years, and today we bring you the first trailer for it.
The film is based on an off-Broadway musical by Jason Robert Brown, and the story revolves around the demise of a marriage from the perspectives of a successful writer husband and his struggling actress wife.
I grew up around musical theater because it’s what my dad did, so I’m open to watching these kinds of movies, and this one doesn’t look too bad.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Tony award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown is a musical deconstruction of a love affair and a marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wellerstein is a young, talented up and coming novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy’s songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie’s songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. Its beautiful pop music score portrays an honest, heartbreaking, often funny, exploration of love and it's consequences on individual identity.
The movie will be released on Valentine’s Day in 2015.