LIFE ITSELF Teaser Trailer Experience the new LIFE ITSELF teaser trailer! The film, written and directed by Dan Fogelman (Danny Collins), stars Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Cooke, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin, and Samuel L. Jackson. LIFE ITSELF will be released in theaters on September 21. The lives of people from New York to Spain intersect over the course of different generations.