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2025

Romance
Drama

Summary

Years on from their teen romance in 80s Sheffield, music brings them back together - was this the love they were meant to have? Romance and heartbreak with a banging soundtrack. Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess star.

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Review

Frances Taylor

The film Past Lives perfectly bottled the pain of a tender young relationship lost; of drifting apart from a first love, reconnecting decades later via social media and suffering the emotional gut-punch of wondering what could’ve been. By comparison, this good-natured and well-meaning four-part Australian drama, starring Jim Sturgess and Teresa Palmer, feels like a modest cover version. It’s 1989 in Sheffield, and teenage sweethearts Alison and Daniel bond over vinyl records as they listen to Nick Drake on a Walkman and snatch looks across the school corridor.

Now, Daniel (Sturgess) is a music journalist still living in Sheffield while Alison (Palmer) is an author who has relocated to Sydney. Both are married (conveniently, to vaguely irritating and unsupportive spouses) and share the nagging feeling that life didn’t work out how they expected. So when Daniel sends Alison a friend request on Facebook out of the blue, it might be about to turn both of their lives upside down.

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7.6/10

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rolenameAlisonTeresa PalmerDanielJim SturgessYoung AlisonFlorence HuntYoung DanielRory Walton-SmithMichaelBen LawsonKatjaSara SouliéStellaJulia SavageBillMark O'HalloranMarianHelen BehanYoung PeterConor Sánchez