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Overview
Release Date:
20 December 1997 (Japan) moreTagline:
They needed a miracle for their love to survivePlot:
Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom and love along the way. | full synopsisUser Comments:
On the whole a surprisingly good movie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Guy Boyd | ... | Father | |
| Brad Pitt | ... | Rick | |
| Cheryl Pollak | ... | Frances | |
| Constantin Nitchoff | |||
| Milena Dravic | ... | Mother | |
| Gorica Popovic | ... | Nina | |
| Sonja Savic | |||
| Nikola Jovanovic | |||
| Boro Begovic | |||
| Milan Sretenovic | (as Milan Sretenovic-Globus) | ||
| Andjelo Arandjelovic | (as Angelo Arangelovic) | ||
| Sreten Mitrovic | |||
| Stole Arandjelovic | ... | Vidar (the healer) (as Stole Arangelovic) | |
| Ras Rastoder | |||
| Vladan Banovic |
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Rated R for some language and nudity.Parents Guide:
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The film was shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988. As editing neared completion civil war tore apart the region and much of the footage was lost. In 1996, after a five-year search, all of the lost footage was found and returned to producer Andjelo Arandjelovic, who worked on getting a distribution deal for the film, before it ended up getting released direct-to-video. moreSoundtrack:
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I tend to dislike movies with melodramatic aspects, but this one actually works, though it doesn't really look to me like Brad Pitt in it has a condition that keeps him out of the sun, he was as toned and lightly-tan in this movie as in any I ever saw him in (apparently he had nothing to do inside in the dark but crunches :)). The locales are beautiful, the light is that Adriatic sunlight that is so marvelous, that the movie is great to see just from a cinematographic aspect. And Mr. Pitt actually did some much more than just getting by/decent acting in this one, one of the hardest things to do in the profession is to be the object of a tearjerker, and he successfully pulls it off. It is a shame he was just compensated some 10k-12k for this picture and in some recent ones so much for so little(but then he has had his distractions so I shouldn't carp). Excellent performances by the father and love interest characters round it out.(The faith-healer aspect was a bit jarring, as I was not aware that this had been a Yugoslavian/Serbo-Croatian tradition and it seemed a bit New-Agey to me, though I have since been shown an Ivo Andric story where it was mentioned in that region in an 1890s setting so it is presumably legitimate background). The other elements-sound, direction, etc. were up to high-quality low budget studio production in the States, and better than most of those. The dialogue flows well, and the original language is clearly English, this is _not_ a dubbed movie. I am surprised it went to video directly, I feel it could have easily gone to a successful theatrical release. Much much worse has done so, and profited greatly. It deserves a look-see.