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The Future

Play trailer Poster for The Future R,  2011,  1h 31m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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73% Tomatometer 111 Reviews 54% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
In Los Angeles, longtime lovers (Hamish Linklater, Miranda July) make radical changes in their lives after deciding to adopt a sickly stray cat.
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A dark and whimsical exploration of human existence that challenges viewers as much as it rewards them.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Aug 31, 2018
Didn't get it. Might have got it if I'd concentrated more, but I lost the will. Readers, I'm not proud of this, but will say it anyhow: I was baffled. Go to Full Review
Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Jan 27, 2012
2.5/4
July is a filmmaker of distinct imagination and whimsy, and while there is a great deal on her mind and a ton she wants to say her delivery of it all, in my opinion at least, still leaves a bit of something to be desired. Go to Full Review
Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard Nov 4, 2011
2/5
You end up feeling sorry for the cat but not for Sophie and Jason, who seem unable to deal with life, love or, in fact, anything. Go to Full Review
Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jan 30, 2026
[Packs] quite a wallop as she explores not only the possible dissolution of a relationship, but also the entire nature of time itself. Go to Full Review
Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants Jan 14, 2022
Somehow there is narration by a cat wearing a little cast on its leg and it is a beautiful and a heartbreaking thing Go to Full Review
Jordan M. Smith IONCINEMA.com Nov 19, 2020
3/5
The Future doesn't escape its shortcomings, but it is a surreal success non-the-less. July remains an indie icon, fearlessly pursuing her own visions. Go to Full Review
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Hagrid R Jan 28, 2018 This is the kind of arthouse film that makes one want to stick needles in their eyes.
Theodore L Jan 26, 2018 The movie looks nothing like how the future will really look. This movie was filled with nonsense and unwanted characters and scenes that could have been pulled from the film. From the opening scene with the sickly sounding "cat" (that we find out later in the film) to the talking moon and the unexpected and unneeded superpowers, makes this film thrown into the garbage. While the opening scene really made my face, look confused and curious the opening shot of the two main characters sitting in a green filtered room made me feel uncomfortable and nauseous. To add onto my uncomfortable feeling was the awkward and quirky acting that made no sense in the film at all. The film had no plot to it and didn't make sense to anything that it showed us. The cat that was talking about wanting to go to his/her new home made no sense in this film and could have been happily and easily cut out since the voice sounded grossly sick and most importantly, it didn't help the main characters story at all. The cat was just a random item the director threw in to fill up the movie time to make it longer. When the cheating happened, I thought this was the climax of the film and maybe it will turn around and interesting things will happen, but it didn't, it got weirder and weirder. She lived with the man she cheated with and nothing special happened between them. She was still the same quirky and awkward girl that did strange things and the man just wanted sex which seemed like that was what their relationship was based around, and also, he's in his 50s while she's in her 20s? Isn't that a little weird? Let's not forget the superpowers that made no sense. I didn't understand what he did in the very beginning of the film when he "freezes" her and why she was still talking to him when she was frozen. Was she pretending? His powers never get explained in the film which I would have liked for them to add some interesting things to it. What I didn't get is when he stopped her at night when she was going to tell him she was cheating. He stopped her for almost the same time he did in the beginning but three days didn't go by at that time. So, why did so many days go by the second time he did it at night? Was it because of the moon? Was it because it was at night? Also, what's with the moon? This was the first time we even heard about the moon talking to this guy so why put it in at the very end of the movie to leave us questioning it? It makes no sense. Like how the movie started us with questions, it ends with even more questions making us say, "this movie is not worth seeing". See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis In Los Angeles, longtime lovers (Hamish Linklater, Miranda July) make radical changes in their lives after deciding to adopt a sickly stray cat.
Director
Miranda July
Producer
Gina Kwon, Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner
Screenwriter
Miranda July
Distributor
Roadside Attractions
Production Co
GNK
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 29, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 29, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$568.4K
Runtime
1h 31m
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