
About the film
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
- Directed by
- Michael Apted
- Released
- November 17, 1999
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Starring
- Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby, Suzanne Dewey, Nicholas Hitchon, Neil Hughes, Lynn Johnson, Paul Kligerman
- Language
- English
- Origin
- GB
- Studios
- Granada Television
- Belongs to
- The Up Collection
- Produced by
- Stephen Lambert, Michael Apted, Ruth Pitt
- Box office
- $300,880
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