After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Direction
Apted's gentle interrogation extracts startling honesty.
Editing
Seamless cross-cutting between past and present selves.
Director
Michael Apted
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series accidentally became the longest-running longitudinal study in film history, originally commissioned as a one-off for Granada Television's World in Action.
Apted later admitted his upper-class bias, noting he assumed the wealthy kids would succeed and the working-class ones wouldn't — his surprise became the series' moral complexity.
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