- Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Company, The
- Release Date: May 24, 1991
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- Starring: Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson
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Summary:
Unable to get over the death of her musician lover, a young women gets the shock of her life when he turns up in her apartment--seemingly alive--and helps her back to the world of the living.
(MGM)
- Director: Anthony Minghella
- Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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100Writer and first-time director Anthony Minghella lays on the whimsy a bit thick at times, but his wryly funny and heartfelt observations on sorrow go down much easier than the Hollywood brand of lump-in-the-throat histrionics.
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80If the relatively prosaic Minghella, making his movie debut, lacks the suggestive poetic sensibility of Lewton, he does a fine job in capturing the contemporary everyday textures of London life, and coaxes a strong performance out of Stevenson, a longtime collaborator. Full of richly realized secondary characters and witty oddball details, this is a beguiling film in more ways than one.
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80This sharply scripted study of a bereaved woman who literally wishes her partner back from the grave is an impressive directorial bow by British playwright Anthony Minghella. Despite surface similarities with Ghost pic has a different feel and theme.
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60A divisive film - too overwrought for some, perfectly emotionally pitched for others - how much it will appeal will depend on how romantically inclined the viewer is feeling.
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