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The Last Five Years (2014) on Netflix

PG-1320141h 34mComedyDramaMusical

Jamie Wellerstein, a young novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, meet in New York and marry. Their five-year love story is sung twice, her songs running backward, his forward.

  • Netflix3.0/5
  • IMDb5.9/1011,374 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes60%

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Jamie Wellerstein is a young writer who has just met Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress in New York. The story of their five-year relationship is told in song. His songs begin when they meet and move forward in time; hers begin after the marriage has come apart and move backward. The two timelines meet at a gazebo in Central Park when he proposes, and they marry in the same spot. Cathy works a summer of stock theater in Ohio while Jamie's novel becomes a bestseller.

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  • SPOILERCathy's songs run backward in time from the day her marriage ends while Jamie's run forward from the day they meet, and the two timelines meet only once, during their wedding duet "The Next Ten Minutes."
  • On stage the show is almost all solo numbers, with Jamie and Cathy alternating songs, almost never singing together and often not even present while the other unburdens themselves; in adapting it for film, Richard LaGravenese decided to have the other character present for each monologue.
  • Sherie Rene Scott, who originated the role of Cathy in the original Off-Broadway production, appears in one of the film's audition scenes alongside her real-life husband, Kurt Deutsch.
  • Betsy Wolfe, who had played Cathy in the show's 2013 Off-Broadway revival, appears in the film in a different part, as the former stripper Cathy rooms with while working in Ohio.
  • SPOILERJeremy Jordan's real-life wife, Ashley Spencer, appears in the film as one of Jamie's affairs, in the song "Nobody Needs to Know".
  • Composer Jason Robert Brown turns up in the film himself, playing one of the accompanists during Cathy's auditions in the song "Climbing Uphill".
  • The film opened in limited release in just three theaters in North America, and grossed $42,042 there in its opening weekend.

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