5 Flights Up
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. The film is based on the novel Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment. It was released on May 8, 2015 by Focus World.
Plot
Alex and Ruth Carver, an older couple, live in a five-story walk-up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They want to move because it is difficult living in a building without an elevator. Alex is a painter and uses one of the rooms as his studio. Ruth is a retired school teacher. They have lived there so many years that it and the neighborhood have become intertwined with their lives. Their niece Lilly is their broker and believes the apartment is worth up to $1 million.
More details
| author | Charlie Peters |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Richard Loncraine |
| editor | Andrew Marcus |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | build disabled end even manhattan moving in new apartment news report retire sale school teacher tanker truck walk young couple |
| musicBy | David Newman |
| producer | Charlie Peters Curtis Burch Lori McCreary Morgan Freeman Tracy Mercer |
| productionCompany | Lascaux Films Latitude Productions Revelations Entertainment |
| publisher | Focus Features |
| recordedAt | New York City |