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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal Studios
EAN: 0025192267727
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD22677D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 05, 2002
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 24, 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on a scott spencer novel. In 1974 a man loses the love of his life in a terrorist attack.Eight years later he lives with another woman is an attorney making a bid for congress and becomes consumed by memories then visions of his lost love. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Starring: Billy Crudup Hal Holbrook Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Keith Gordon
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Actor-turned-director Keith Gordon has crafted a touching love story that transcends time, political ideology, and even death. The movie opens in 1974 as Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) watches a TV news report announcing the death in Chile of three American activists, including Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), his one true love. The story flashes back to when they first met, showing how he was always more conservative, with grand political aspirations, but the relationship worked because they both shared dreams of making the world a better place, one from inside the system and the other from outside. The movie also flashes forward to his life in the early '80s, when he gets tapped to run for Congress. He starts having visions of her, but he is never quite sure if she's a hallucination arising out of his stress, a manifestation of his political consciousness, an out-and-out ghost, or maybe she's still alive somehow. Whatever she is, his deep longing for her is making him crack up. Gordon smartly jumps the story back and forth in time, forgoing an "objective" reality in favor of a more subjective and emotional one. It is a structure based on memory, and that in tandem with the content is what makes Waking the Dead a very powerful film indeed.--Andy Spletzer
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Rating:  -
Perhaps Americans are simply ignorant of recent history, but still, I have a hard time believing that no one writing a review of this film has mentioned that Scott Spencer and Keith Gordon based the character of "Sarah" very closely on an actual person: Ronni Moffitt, the young political activist killed in the car-bomb assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier in 1976. (agents of the Pinochet regime were convicted of the murders). Some might say the particulars of Moffitt's life shouldn't really ... Read More
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"Waking the Dead" is a good drama. I found the central premise moving. Fielding Pierce loses his girlfriend Sarah to an act of violence. His longing for her is so strong after her passing that his desire to see her begins to make him question his sanity. Anybody who has lost someone important to them should be able to relate. Billy Crudup from "Mission Impossible III" plays the young lawyer/politician Fielding Pierce. He takes the performance to the edge with his desperation. Jennifer Connelly ... Read More
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WOW! I think Jennfier Connely was real & the CIA made it look like there was a fire. Great acting by both main characters.
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I love this movie for so many reasons...
Its a great movie about love and loss.
He sees his girlfriend everywhere he goes and he remembers all
the good times and how they had to work out all their differences.
He was a into politics and had alot of different views and was hoping to be president one day, his girlfriend Sarah wanted to save the world and
no more war kind of view. They had a this love for each other that no matter how far apart thier views were they loved ... Read More
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This is one of the few movies that I have seen that I think is better than the book. Not that the Scott Spencer novel is bad (I would give it four stars), but I think that the fact that the movie refuses to answer the central question of whether or not Sarah really is alive (and not by a screen turning black, but by focusing the attention on Fielding's point of view instead) adds to the mysterious elements of the plot. Jump at the chance to buy this movie. It is one of the best of the last ten years, ... Read More
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