Age of Adaline 2025

Description

The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romantic fantasy film directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz.

The film stars Blake Lively as Adaline, with Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, and Ellen Burstyn.

Narrated by Hugh Ross, the story follows Adaline Bowman, a young woman who stops aging following an accident at the age of twenty-nine.

The film was produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment. Principal photography took place in Vancouver from March 5 to May 5, 2014. It premiered in New York City on April 19, 2015, and was cinematically released on April 24 in the United States by Lionsgate. It received mixed reviews from critics, though many praised both Lively’s and Ford’s performances, citing them as some of their best work in recent years.

The film received two nominations at the 42nd Saturn Awards, one for Best Fantasy Film and one for Lively for Best Actress.

Adaline Marie Bowman was born on New Year’s Day, 1908, in San Francisco at 12:01 a.m. to Faye and Milton Bowman. In 1929, when she was twenty-one, Adaline married engineer Clarence James Prescott. Three years later, in 1932, they had a daughter named Flemming.

Five years later, in 1937, Clarence as well as nine others were killed during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Ten months after his death, Adaline crashed her car into a ravine while driving to her parents’ beach cottage and died in a freezing lake in Sonoma County, but a lightning strike that struck her car revived her. From then on, Adaline stopped aging.

Sixteen years pass, and in 1953, after a traffic violation, a police officer confiscates her ID and thinks it must be fake, as she is now forty-five but still appears twenty-nine. Adaline moves back to San Francisco and takes a clerical job at a medical school, but finds no information about her condition. Two FBI agents attempt to abduct her for study. She realizes she must spend the rest of her life on the run, changing her identity every decade. She bids a tearful goodbye to now-adult Flemming, who continues to get older than her mother.

Six decades later, in 2015, under the alias « Jennifer Larson, » Adaline falls in love with philanthropist Ellis Jones. She knows she cannot have a normal relationship but cannot resist him. She goes along to his parents’ 40th wedding anniversary celebration. His father William recognizes her instantly, but she claims Adaline was her mother, who died six years earlier.

They each privately reflect on how they had met and fallen in love decades earlier, and he had wanted to marry her. William is shaken when he notices a scar on her hand, from an injury Adaline sustained while they were hiking together. He confronts her, and she admits the truth. He begs her to stay for Ellis’s sake, but Adaline instead writes Ellis a note and leaves. Finding the letter, Ellis confronts his father, who refuses to explain.

Driving home, Adaline has a change of heart. She stops and calls Flemming, now old enough to be her grandmother, to say she is tired of running. As she turns around, a flatbed truck collides with her car, pushing it into a ravine. Thrown from the car, Adaline’s heart stops due to hypothermia. An ambulance crew revives her with a defibrillator and she wakes up in the hospital with Ellis at her bedside. They profess their love, and Adaline tells him of her 107 years of life and fear of being discovered.

A year later, Ellis and Adaline are leaving for a New Year’s Eve party when, in the hallway mirror, she notices a grey hair. When Ellis asks if she is okay, she replies she’s « perfect. » A voiceover explains that the jolt from the defibrillator restarted her aging process. Adaline smiles, realizing that she is now able to grow old with Ellis.

Cast

• Blake Livelyas Adaline Marie Bowman
• Michiel Huismanas Ellis Jones, Adaline’s love interest
• Harrison Fordas William Jones, Ellis’ dad and Kathy’s husband
  • Anthony Ingruberas young William Jones
• Lynda Boydas Reagan, Adaline’s blind friend
• Ellen Burstynas Flemming Prescott, Adaline’s daughter
  • Cate Richardson as young Flemming (age 20)
  • Izabel Pearce as child Flemming (age 5)
• Kathy Bakeras Kathy Jones, Ellis’ mom and William’s wife
• Amanda Crewas Kikki Jones, Ellis’ sister
• Peter J. Gray as Clarence James Prescott, Adaline’s late husband and Flemming’s dad who died in 1937
• Hugh Rossas Narrator