| | Waking The Dead DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Romance, Based On A Novel, Ghosts | | Starring | Jennifer Connelly, Billy Crudup, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Sandra Oh, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Molly Parker, Tony Calabretta, Ivonne Coll, Leah Pinsent | | Director | Keith Gordon | | Composer | Tom Hajdu, Andy Milburn | | Costume Designer | Renee April | | Director of Photography | Tom Richmond | | Editor | Jeff Wishengrad | | Executive Producer | Jodie Foster | | Producer | Keith Gordon, Linda Reisman, Stuart Kleinman | | Production Designer | Zoe Sakellaropoulo | | Screenwriter | Robert Dillon | | Source Writer | Scott Spencer |
Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments Keith Gordon's WAKING THE DEAD is a mysterious psychological drama concerning a lawyer who is running for U.S. congress. When he begins to see intense visions of his supposedly deceased girlfriend, he starts questioning his sanity.
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. Because of her involvement with a group called Sanctuary that harbors 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 gray. Director Keith Gordon's use of flashback and nonlinear 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.
Theatrical release: March 24, 2000.
The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly also appear together in 1997's INVENTING THE ABBOTTS.
Robert Dillon was nominated for Best Screenplay in the Independent Spirit Awards.
Waking The Dead Reviews: "...Mr. Crudup is a creditable actor who puts a great deal of craft into his performance....Ms. Connelly captures a burning ethereality and willfulness that are very much of the period..."
-- Stephen Holden, New York Times "WAKING THE DEAD is a powerful story of love and politics in the '70s and '80s and their bittersweet aftermath. It is a film of uncommon intelligence and rigor that illuminates a complex era..."
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...WAKING THE DEAD has a good heart and some fine performances....It's a sweet film..."-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...WAKING THE DEAD scores on the obsessive-love front..."-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere "...Crudup etches a corrosive portrait of a man coming apart..."-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "...An often impressive intimacy....Visually enticing..."
-- Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly
This is the only Leah Pinsent video. Waking The Dead | List Price | $9.99 (You save $3.44) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 2000 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5710  | | CD Universe Part number | 5421225 | | Catalog number | 61022677 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 05, 2002 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 103 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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