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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790765440
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790765446
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 03, 2002
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 62101
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1998
Editorial Review:
Description:
Dana (Victoria Foyt) and Sean (Stephen Dillane) are strangers, yet they have a strong sense of belonging together. They also have no interest in upending their lives and long-term romances, so they part instead of following their hearts. But love may not be so easily denied.
Amazon.com:
So romantic and haunting is Déja Vu's premise, it cries out for a director with more magic than Henry Jaglom can muster. Just before a long-engaged woman (Victoria Foyt, Jaglom's collaborator and second wife) slips into a serviceable marriage with a nice, if rather dull, guy (Michael Brandon), a chance encounter with an older Frenchwoman--a ghost?--derails her. After confiding memories of a dead-ended World War II love affair, the mysterious lady disappears, leaving behind a ruby pin that signifies one should never settle for less than the love of one's life. Drawn into the woman's past, Foyt travels from Paris to the White Cliffs of Dover--the WWII song, promising happy endings, is reprised at every turn--where she discovers the (married) love of her life (Stephen Dillane). Should they ruthlessly follow the dictates of their hearts? Or reject serendipitous passion in favor of familiar, safe lives? The star-crossed couple's dilemma comes into dramatic focus during a house party, when the guests (especially the charismatic Vanessa Redgrave) share tales about defining emotional moments, seized or allowed to pass. Director Jaglom likes to let a movie 'happen' during such get-togethers, with family or friends improvising on often intimate themes (e.g., Babyfever's shower, 1994; Eating's birthday celebration, 1990). Such cinéma vérité can pay off in the freshest kinds of insights about the human condition--or it can be like getting cornered at a cocktail party by a pack of garrulous solipsists. Look for some of both in Déja Vu. --Kathleen Murphy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Lots of Synchronicity, Romance, And Challenges To The Status Quo
(Note: This review was written by my wife, Laura...)
You will instantly be drawn into this beautiful film as the lives of two strangers become interwoven in a magical dance of the soul. How does one choose between a stable, comfortable life and another life that is filled with true love but tainted with uncertainty?
This movie seeks to answer this question as these two strangers are ripped between what their mind wants and is conditioned to want by friends, family, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Dissapointing!
I love Stephen Dillane which is why I picked this movie. His performance was very good but the overall movie was weird and jerky. The "no script" thing shows how important a script is. I hope the director bagged that idea after this movie. It is painfully apparent when Stephen Dillanes character runs into Victoria Foyt's character at the house in London, she just keeps saying "what are you doing here?" and Dillane doesn't respond. The bedtime conversations between the old couple that owns the ... Read More
Rating: - the lead actress is a holy terror....a test of endurance...
the concept is lovely...some of the dialogue is actually literate and smart...but the lead actress, as mentioned by so many others, is so unrelentingly whiny and irritating you can barely look at the screen when she is on...i'm watching the vhs version right now as i type and find the movie is more palatable if i can type and watch together to dissipate the really annoying stuff. okay, i'm also watching the clock at the same time because i want to see how it ends but wonder if i can bear the whole ... Read More
Rating:  - 1998 DEJA VU asks all the puzzling questions in the Universe...haven't we met before?...don't I know you....What do we do???
Film director Henry Jaglom has been hailed by critics as "the definitive Hollywood filmmaker".Jaglom and his real-life actress/wife ,Victoria Foyt, once again team up to bring a startling and originally scripted and crafted screenplay to the screen.Anyone familiar with the Jaglom/Foyt team (LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS) will again recognize the earmarks of their work which always tend towards multiple characters intertwined in almost "reality-like" situations and conversations making the viewer one ... Read More
Rating:  - What was Dillane thinking when he took this role?
This viewer came away from this movie with the idea that Victoria Foyt and her husband must have been very generous with the cash to purchase such great actors for such a silly little movie. A check of Victoria Foyt's "acting" credits at IMDb shows that she hasn't been in any "real" movies, only those that she puts on herself. Foyt can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and repetition and loud lines don't compensate for a lack of talent when supposedly working extemporaneously. I love Dillane's work, ... Read More
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