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Waking the Dead (2000) -- A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Waking the Dead (2000) -- A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

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Overview

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6.7/10   3,823 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Scott Spencer (based upon the novel by)
Robert Dillon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 March 2000 (USA) more
Tagline:
Sometimes love has a life of its own.
Plot:
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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(13 articles)
User Comments:
Moving film about first love and ambition more (98 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Billy Crudup ... Fielding Pierce
Bill Haugland ... TV Newsman at Bombing

Nelson Landrieu ... Francisco Higgens

Ivonne Coll ... Gisela Higgens

Jennifer Connelly ... Sarah Williams

Maxine Guess ... Danny's Receptionist
Paul Hipp ... Danny Pierce
Hal Holbrook ... Isaac Green
Lawrence Dane ... Governor Kinosis

Ed Harris ... Jerry Charmichael
Robert Harding ... TV Newsman #2

Janet McTeer ... Caroline Pierce

Molly Parker ... Juliet Beck
Larry Marshall ... Angelo Bertelli

Don Jordan ... Minister with Bertelli on TV
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality and language.
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105 min
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Jennifer Connelly's son, Kai was in the film, she was holding him in the scene in which Fielding was at the church. more
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Factual errors: 23 January 1983, the election day, was on a Sunday. more
Quotes:
Sarah Williams: Our lives have taken us so far apart now. It seems wrong to think we belong together.
Fielding Pierce: But I think it.
Sarah Williams: I do too. I think I know why.
Fielding Pierce: Why?
Sarah Williams: Because it's what we want. But... so few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway.
Fielding Pierce: They're not? Who are?
Sarah Williams: The ones that do what they are meant to.
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References Labyrinth (1986) more
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Piano In The Dark more

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Moving film about first love and ambition, 21 May 2007
10/10
Author: Garbo9_99 from New York City

What made this film so hauntingly beautiful was that fact that the ghost being chased wasn't just Sarah - it was who they both were in their youth, and the overwhelming emotion and honesty that is first love. Was Fielding really seeking Sarah or who he once was - what he once stood for when he loved her? Sometimes when we grow up we let our well-meant integrity, even our simplest dreams, die under the 'reality' of who we end up becoming. I thought this film did an excellent job at showing someone mourning his youth, his wild ideas - and his truest love. I thought Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly both did amazing jobs - the intensity of their performances is what really drove the story. Beautiful acting, beautiful movie.

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