Newest LIFE ITSELF Trailer and Clips Don’t miss the new LIFE ITSELF trailer and clips! The film, written and directed by Dan Fogelman (Danny Collins), stars Olivia Cooke, Olivia Wilde, Samuel L. Jackson, Oscar Isaac, Antonio Banderas, Mandy Patinkin, Laia Costa, and Annette Bening. LIFE ITSELF will be released in theaters this Friday. As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes in Life Itself. Director and writer Dan Fogelman (“This Is Us”) examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multi-generational saga featuring an international ensemble including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Laia Costa, Alex Monner and Mandy Patinkin. Set in New York City and Carmona, Spain, Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all of its complications with humor, poignancy and love.