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Merrily We Roll Along (2025)

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Merrily We Roll Along (2025)

Overview

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: High

Viewer Rating
8.4

Overview

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film primarily explores apolitical themes of artistic integrity, personal ethics, and the corrosive effects of ambition and commercialism on friendships, focusing on individual choices rather than explicit partisan politics or systemic critiques.

The film demonstrates significant DEI primarily through its casting choices, featuring a Latina-identifying actor in a principal role and a Black actor in a featured role, which represents explicit racial diversity in roles traditionally associated with white characters. However, the narrative itself maintains the original musical's themes of fame and friendship, without explicitly centering on or critiquing traditional identities or introducing new DEI-focused plotlines.

Secondary

The film 'Merrily We Roll Along, 2025' does not appear to feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes based on the available information. The narrative focuses on the reverse-chronological story of three friends and their evolving relationships, ambitions, and personal choices, without any explicit LGBTQ+ content mentioned.

The film Merrily We Roll Along (2025) does not depict transsexual characters, themes of gender/sex reassignment, or a transsexual community. All available information, including plot synopses and character descriptions, indicates an absence of such portrayals. For example, the central narrative revolves around three friends and their heterosexual relationships and career paths, with no mention of transsexual identities or storylines.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film's characters, including Franklin Shepard, Charley Kringas, and Mary Flynn, maintain the same genders as established in the original source material and prior adaptations, with no on-screen gender changes.

The provided information states that no characters in the source material (original play or musical) had a canonically established race or specific phenotypical traits. Without a prior established race, a race swap cannot be identified.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
8.2
The Movie Database logo
8.2

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
9.5
Metacritic logo
7.8

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