First released on Oct. 25, 2024, “Here,” directed by Robert Zemickis and starring Tom Hanks, largely fell flat. How is that possible? It’s Tom Hanks and Robert Zemickis. They’ve combined for the likes of “Cast Away” and ”Forrest Gump.“ But, the 2024 edition of the duo is an exercise in aimless sentimentality. Despite this, the uniqueness of the film is worth taking a look at. Throughout the movie, the camera never moves and only focuses on one location, but shows different time periods of that location. These include an early Native American tribe, the estate of the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, a man and his wife who are the first to move into the actual constructed house in the early 1900s, a couple in the early 1940s in which the husband eventually goes on to invent the La-Z-Boy recliner, the Young family, and finally a modern couple who lived there during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film alternates early on between the different stories in no particular order. Eventually, ...