The Age of Adaline (2015)
- Lee Toland Krieger originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- The original script for The Age of Adaline was written over a decade before production finally began in 2015.
- The incredible score for The Age of Adaline was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Lee Toland Krieger. Blake Lively stars as Adaline Bowman, a woman who stopped aging at 29 after a car accident in 1935 combined with a lightning strike altered her biology, forcing her to change identities every decade and avoid lasting human connections to protect her secret. When Adaline finally allows herself to fall for the charming Ellis Jones, played by Michiel Huisman, a New Year's Eve party brings her face to face with Ellis's father William, played by Harrison Ford โ a man Adaline had loved and abandoned decades earlier, who recognizes her as the woman who broke his heart.
Blake Lively brought elegance and melancholy to Adaline's enforced solitude, and Harrison Ford delivered his most tender dramatic performance in years as a man confronting the impossible return of his lost love. The film earned $65 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.
