Movie of the Week: The Age of Adaline

[jacey]

Slow-paced tale of a 29 year old woman who due to some scientific technobabble comparable to introducing midichlorians into the Star Wars prequels ceases to age. There's a lot of initial exposition before we get to meet Adaline who is geting through life by changing identities every ten years, with only her daughter (who by now loooks like her grandmother) as a constant in her life.

The image on the poster says it all. It's an angsty romance with none of the other aspects of not aging explored except in a very cursory manner.

Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman are somewhat instantly forgettable as the angsty lovers, but the whole thing is saved somewhat by a good turn from Harrison Ford as ... well, if I told you that it would be a major spoiler... and Ellen Burstyn as the aged daughter.

I can see this eventually becoming one of the staple afternoon movies on TV on some obscure channel.