The Age of Adaline(2015)

Plot Summary

• The Age of Adaline is a 2015 romantic fantasy directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz. Blake Lively plays Adaline Bowman, a woman permanently frozen at twenty-nine, who has spent nearly a century in careful solitude in and around San Francisco, reinventing herself every few years to avoid scrutiny. Michiel Huisman plays Ellis Jones, the persistent philanthropist who draws her back into a life she has kept herself from. Harrison Ford plays William, Ellis's father — and a man who knew Adaline in another lifetime. Ellen Burstyn plays Adaline's daughter, Flemming, now elderly, whose existence quietly underlines the strangeness of her mother's condition. The film moves between the present-day city and decades of beautifully rendered period sequences, grounding its fantasy premise in emotional restraint rather than spectacle. Themes of isolation, the cost of self-protection, and what it takes to truly let someone in run through the story. Produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate, the film grossed approximately $65.7 million worldwide on a $25 million budget. It holds a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, with consistent praise for Lively's and Ford's performances. Best suited for audiences drawn to romantic fantasy with emotional depth and a strong visual sense of time and place.