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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CRUDUP,BILLY
EAN: 0025192267727
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 05, 2002
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 25119
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 24, 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
At the same time he is running for Congress, a young lawyer experiences vivid memories of his girl friend who died in a political bombing years ago.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Amazing Movie
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
Rating:  - Love this movie
First of all, Billy Crudup and Jennifery Connoly are beautiful and I didn't fully realized it until I saw this movie. Second, the conflict that arises when two people with lofty ideals try to better the world by taking parallel paths with hopes of accomplishing the same goals is compelling. I wish there was a little more plot exposition in the early days of their relationship because I agree it is at first hard to accept the intensity of their love with the whirlwind version that we see in the film. ... Read More
Rating: - Awaken....
Beautiful film. Billy Crudup gives a performance of his carrer. Connelly is great to watch and strong. Well played film. Don't blink or you'll miss Ed Harris appear on a TV screen. The movie tuggs at heart strings. Not the best but great. Not too original but is satisfying. Song at the ends along with Crudup is reason enough to watch.
Rating: - look beyond the obvious
people, people. look beyond the obvious. this isnt a love story. it isnt a ghost story. it isnt a story about politics. it is a story about waking what lies dead inside of us. it isnt about the love he had for her dying- it is about what was awake and alive in him- what she had awakened in him when they met- not love- but a passion for life. a purpose. the both were idealistic and had a zest for the power that politics and activism had for contributing to life- to make a difference. dont you remember ... Read More
Rating:  - An Expensive Lifetime Movie
This movie pushes the Lifetime genre in two small ways -- they paid more for the actors and there is some sympathy for the male lead. I confess that the actors tried to make something of the script, but you cannot make a masterpiece of a paint-by-numbers set. Otherwise, this overwrought windbag of a movie is just as void of depth and long on emotional dialogue as any LMN fare.
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