The Last 5 Years

A story that will make your heart sing. When a couple lives together for five years after the wedding, their story can be different. The main characters are young people who, after all these years, are trying to figure out why things are not the same now as they were then. He is a writer named Jamie Wellerstein, She is an actress named Katie Hiatt. The line of joint life will unfold from two ends. Katie will sing starting at the end of the wedding ceremony and Jamie starting at the crisis point. Read more Richard LaGravenes' tape was filmed as a musical for a reason. The thing is that the musical of the same name, a stage production, served as the original for the film script. The script for the film was written by the creator of the original story, however, in tandem with the director himself. The composer, by the way, could be seen in the trailer. He sits at the piano and receives a piece of paper from the hands of the main character. The story itself was partially written by Jason Robert Brown after similar events in his life. Actress Anna Kendrick, the performer of the main role, sings really well. Together with her partner on the set Jeremy Jordan, she performed 11 songs and 14 herself, live. Previously, they had already played on the Broadway stage, so they became the main candidates for the role in "The Last Five Years of Love". Directly from the musical play, in order to make it easier to associate these two works, some actors were transferred to the film. True, in this case they already performed other roles. One of the roles in the drama "The Last Five Years of Love" was played by Ashley Spencer, who in real life is Jeremy Jordan's wife. Filming began on July 17, 2013. The creative team worked in New York. All in all, it took just 21 days.