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Danny Boyle On 'Yesterday,' A Magical Realism Mystery Tour Of Beatles Songs

The director's newest film stars Himesh Patel as a struggling musician who wakes up to find he's the only person across the universe who remembers the Fab Four.
In <em>Yesterday</em>, directed by Danny Boyle, Himesh Patel plays Jack Malik — the only person on Earth who remembers the existence (and the music) of The Beatles.

In the story of Rip van Winkle, a man asleep for 20 years wakes up in a world where people know things that he doesn't. Flip that, and you'd have a story about someone who wakes up to discover he knows things that no one else knows. That is, you'd have the premise of the movie Yesterday.

is a sort of fantasy/musical/romantic comedy/drama. It follows Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) as a struggling musician who discovers one

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