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  • 1991
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 1991
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons. But Church doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim (Thompson) tormented by bloodcurdling nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling ...

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Written By: Scott Frank

  • 1991
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 1991
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Dead Again

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 65 User Ratings
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Summary Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons. But Church doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim (Thompson) tormented by bloodcurdling nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling ...

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Written By: Scott Frank

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
12 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
12 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
5% Negative
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100
Deliciously witty and entertaining… A first-rate thriller, one that's likely to generate as much word-of-mouth as “Alien,'' “Carrie'' and “Psycho'' did in their time. [23 Aug 1991, Daily Notebook, p.F1]
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
91
With its stylized black-and-white sequences and fast-paced melodramatic plot, this homage to film noir is both intense and purposely self-conscious.
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80
Engaging film style is buoyed by an infectious sense of fun and punctuated by wild and woolly character turns.
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75
The cinematic equivalent of a "good read" - pick it up and you can't put it down; put it down and it's gone forever.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
60
However unlikely the twists and turns in this mystery, Dead Again moves briskly forward, never weighed down by any sense of seriousness.
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50
Emerges as cutty, indistinct and confused, full of shots that don't match and spatial conceptions that would look flat even on TV. The more Branagh strains to appear “cinematic,'' the more he looks like a man of the theater. [23 Aug 1991, Friday, p.B]
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
25
A two-hour search for a pulse... A miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you don't give it space to breathe.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 65 User Ratings
7.9
74% Positive
48 Ratings
15% Mixed
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11% Negative
7 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 65 User Ratings
7.9
74% Positive
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15% Mixed
10 Ratings
11% Negative
7 Ratings

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Production Company Paramount Pictures, Mirage Enterprises, Renaissance Theatre Company
Release Date Aug 23, 1991
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A Mystery About True Love...And Certain Death.
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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