The Age of Adaline is an unusual story about the life of a 29 year old woman who stops ageing after suffering a car accident back in the 20's. After the accident and ultimately her husband´s death she starts living a secret hidden life changing identity and place every ten years.
Blake Lively creates a compelling portrait of a woman who never belongs anywhere up until a day when she can no longer escape her own life. Ellen Burstyn, playing Adaline´s daughter in her 80´s is flawless and in one particular restaurant scene you struggle to figure out which one is the daughter and the mother and how strangely these roles can be reversed in life. Completely miscast in this movie is Harrison Ford who clearly shouldn´t have accepted a role in which he is demanded to look surprised in every scene he appears on.
The movie is well crafted right up until the last twenty minutes when an "unexpected" event brings part of Adaline´s past into her present life. At this stage the movie and the screenplay turns into a Nicholas Sparks novel and almost gets ruined in the end.
The Age of Adaline is not a bad movie but it would take it a completely different direction to turn it into a great one.
My IMDB rating: 7/10.
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