Since its first instalment in 1964, the celebrated Up documentary series has traced the fortunes of a group of British children from a variety of backgrounds and different parts of the country, returning at seven-year intervals to take snapshots of their lives.
Taking the Jesuit maxim ‘Give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man’, the original 7 Up film posed the question of whether the prospects of those taking part were determined by the class into which they were born.
Directed by Michael Apted, over the decades he watched his subjects grow up and grow old and, along the way, taken a snapshot of British society, exploring issues of family and politics, religion and mental health. Now they are 63, we find out how life has treated them and their families since the last time we caught up with them and how they feel about themselves, their lives and the world we live in.
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