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Directed by | Cecilia Miniucchi |
Written by | Cecilia Miniucchi |
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Edited by | Anne Goursaud |
Music by | Charlie Dobney |
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Distributed by | IFC Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $4,467 |
Life Upside Down is a 2022 American romantic comedy film directed and written by Cecilia Miniucchi. It stars Bob Odenkirk, Danny Huston, Radha Mitchell and Rosie Fellner.
Shot remotely during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the film premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2022. It was released in limited theaters and video on demand on January 27, 2023. It began streaming on AMC+ in April 2023.
In March 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns three couples are uprooted from their high-society lives. They are now trapped in their individual Los Angeles homes and are forced to spend all day and night with their significant other.
Under the working title Worlds Apart, the film was shot during the COVID-19 pandemic remotely over Zoom in May and June 2020 in Los Angeles. [1] [2]
Life Upside Down premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2021. [2] IFC Films acquired North American distribution rights and released the film in limited theaters and video on demand on January 27, 2023. It began streaming on AMC+ in April 2023. [3]
In its opening weekend it grossed $2,419 at 27 theaters. [4] It went on to make a total of $4,467 in the United States and Canada. [5]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 5% of 19 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10. [6] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 37 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [7]
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