FAQ for
Across the Universe (2007)

(listed in sequential order as in the film)

1. "Girl" Performed by Jim Sturgess

2. "Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (reprised later in the film)

3. "Hold Me Tight" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Lisa Hogg

4. "All My Loving" Performed by Jim Sturgess

5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Performed by T. V. Carpio

6. "With a Little Help from My Friends" Performed by Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess

7. "It Won't Be Long" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood

8. "I've Just Seen a Face" Performed by Jim Sturgess

9. "Let It Be" Performed by Carol Woods, Timothy T. Mitchum

10. "Come Together" Performed by Joe Cocker and Martin Luther

11. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Performed by Dana Fuchs

12. "If I Fell" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood

13. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Performed by Joe Anderson

14. "Dear Prudence" Performed by Dana Fuchs, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, T. V. Carpio

15. "Flying" Performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)

16. "Blue Jay Way" Performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)

17. "I Am the Walrus" Performed by Bono (accompanied by the Secret Machines)

18. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Performed by Eddie Izzard

19. "Because" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T. V. Carpio, Martin Luther

20. "Something" Performed by Jim Sturgess

21. "Oh! Darling" Performed by Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther

22. "Strawberry Fields Forever" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson

23. "Revolution" Performed by Jim Sturgess

24. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Performed by Martin Luther and Jim Sturgess

25. "Across the Universe" Performed by Jim Sturgess

26. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Performed by Joe Anderson

27. "A Day in the Life" - (Instrumental) Performed by Jeff Beck

28. "Blackbird" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood

29. "Hey Jude" Performed by Joe Anderson

30. "Don't Let Me Down" Performed by Dana Fuchs

31. "All You Need Is Love" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs

32. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Performed by Bono (this song is played over the end credits. Performance not seen on-screen)

The names of the main characters and some of the secondary characters are derived from names in the titles or lyrics of Beatles songs.

Lucy - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Jude - "Hey Jude"

Max - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

Sadie - "Sexy Sadie"

Jojo - "Get Back"

Prudence - "Dear Prudence"

Dr. Robert - "Doctor Robert"

Mr. Kite - "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"

Dan (Lucy's first boyfriend) - "Rocky Raccoon"

Molly (Jude's English girlfriend) - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

Martha (Jude's mother) - "Martha My Dear"

Julia (Lucy's sister) - "Julia"

Rita (The Contortionist) - "Lovely Rita"

Teddy (Max's uncle) - "Teddy Boy"

Bill (Sadie's Producer) - "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"

Yes. There are actually several inside Beatles references mentioned in this film.

An elderly shipyard employee who gives Jude his paycheck says he thought he'd be doing something different when he was sixty-four, an allusion to the song "When I'm Sixty-Four."

Prudence first enters the New York apartment where the main characters live through an open bathroom window, a humorous reference to the song "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window."

When Max and Jude first see their apartment, Sadie comments that Max seems harmless, but could have murdered his grandmother with a silver hammer, and in another scene Max is shown holding a silver hammer, both unsubtle references to the song that inspired Max's name, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

Apple Records, the company founded by the Beatles in 1968, is obliquely referenced when Jude is trying to draw a green apple, then slices it in half and tries to draw it again, thus producing the two images used for that company's record labels.

The rooftop concert toward the end of the film references the Beatles' famous impromptu rooftop concert atop their Apple offices in January 1969 - their final live performance.

The people in blue during the Mr. Kite sequence resemble Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine.

The club where Jude is first seen is a reproduction of the Cavern Club where the Beatles used to play in Liverpool.

The neighborhood where Jude lives, with the brick houses, looks exactly like the neighborhood where the Beatles used to live, and which can be seen, for example, in the 'Free as a Bird' video.

Jude's girlfriend Molly is later seen with a boy named Desmond, a reference to the couple in "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da."

Yes. This is essentially proven during "I Want To Hold Your Hand", when she is singing to the cheerleader. It was also established that she had a crush on Sadie. And, also, there are several video and audio hints during "Dear Prudence", such as Prudence locking herself in the closet and then coming out, and the lyric "Dear Prudence/Won't you come out to play?

A differing opinion is that she was bisexual. When she first appears in the apartment, she mentions that she lived with a guy across the street. Also, when she's talking with Lucy in the club where Sadie sings "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", Pru mentions that she had been sleeping with Maxwell.

Later, Prudence joins the circus and takes up with the lovely contortionist, Rita.

There was no single disk DVD released.

The 2-Disc "Deluxe Edition" is available in all stores that sell movies.

The 3-Disc "Super Edition" is only available from For Your Entertainment (www.fye.com). The third disc contains an exclusive FYE documentary.

Both editions were made available February 5th, 2008.