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Production Year: 1999 - Drama - Director: Keith Gordon - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook more

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Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is a promising young congressional candidate who becomes obsessed with the idea that his dead lover, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), is still alive....
more...Because of her involvement with a group called Sanctuary that harbours Chilean dissidents, Sarah is presumably killed in a car bombing. However, Fielding is never completely convinced that she's truly gone and years later begins to see and hear her presence. Filled with revealing flashbacks, the film follows the deeply involved romance of the ambitious Fielding and the idealistic Sarah during the 1970s while also portraying Fielding's struggle to win his congressional bid in the 1980s. As his political campaign progresses, so does his belief that Sarah is still alive, leading him to question his sanity and begin a desperate search to find her. WAKING THE DEAD is an eerily atmospheric drama, awash in chilling shades of black, white, and grey. Director Keith Gordon's use of flashback and non-linear storytelling effectively conveys the deep power of memory and love that transcends traditional conceptions of time. Alternating between the past and the present, Gordon's adaptation of the novel by Scott Spencer is a dreamy, mysterious affair that features supremely convincing lead performances by Crudup and Connelly as well as solid supporting turns by Janet McTeer and Hal Holbrook.





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Very cool cinema
Review of Waking The Dead (DVD) by ainkeles

Advantages: attempts to combine incompatible in one tape.
Disadvantages: rather poor special effects

It’s a fine love story densely fastened on politics, hippie motion, mysticism, which in the ending becomes a reality. The young careerist, official has met in the beginning of 70th pretty girl-child of flower who actively protests against war in Vietnam, against revolution in Chile etc. And guy, on the contrary, hob-nob with politics and with pleasure recollects army. These two men love each other, but are unable to understand the lover. Very cool ... Read review

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