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How I Live Now (2013)

★ 6.6 · 938 ratings on TMDB

Love will lead you home

How I Live Now poster★ 6.6

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.

DirectorKevin Macdonald
CastAnna Chancellor, Corey Johnson, Danny McEvoy, Darren Morfitt, George MacKay, Harley Bird
GenresDrama, Romance, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

How I Live Now keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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