Ruth and alex have spent their entire marriage in the same fifth floor brooklyn walk up the girders of the williamsburg bridge rising above the rooftops of their neighborhood.
The fifth floor movie morgan freeman.
Morgan freeman has enjoyed an impressive and varied career on stage television and screen.
Ruth and alex who decide after 40 years that it s gotten too hard to live in their fifth floor walkup.
Diane keeton and morgan freeman were genuine and superb in the movie.
While there she battles unscrupulous and apathetic doctors and staff and still manages to teach her fellow inmates the latest disco dance moves.
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Ruth keaton and alex freeman decide to put their beloved apartment up for sale and seek out more age appropriate digs.
5 flights up 2014 pg 13 1h 32m independent dramas a couple finds unexpected drama when after 40 years of living in the same brooklyn walk up they attempt to sell their apartment and buy a new one.
It was released on may 8 2015 by focus world.
5 flights up released in the united kingdom as ruth alex is a 2014 american comedy drama film directed by richard loncraine written by charlie peters and starring morgan freeman and diane keaton.
A disco waitress is mistakingly admitted to the fifth floor a psychiatric ward in a hospital after being drugged by an evil co worker.
Clearly a low budget production the film spends around half its 90 minute running time in a single setting the fifth floor brooklyn apartment of long married couple ruth diane keaton and alex morgan freeman respectively a retired teacher and a moderately successful portrait painter.
The film focuses on ruth and alex carver diane keaton and morgan freeman an older couple looking to sell their old fashioned brooklyn apartment through their real estate agent lilly cynthia nixon.
If every longtime couple were as contentedly happy and healthy as the pair played by morgan freeman and diane keaton in 5 flights up aging side by side with a devoted partner would be something.
It is a career that began in the mid 60s when freeman appeared in an off broadway production of the.
The film is based on the novel heroic measures by jill ciment.
But the various other plot threads that weave in and out of this main story tie it up and bog it down.
