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Dying to Remember [VHS]

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Well, it's just my personal opinion but I liked this movie, so different strokes for different folks I guess! I saw this movie the other day, we had taped it when it was recently shown on TV. Ever since watching the movie Audrey Rose I have been interested in movies about people who have past life experiences and I thought Dying To Remember was a great movie, as for Melissa Gilbert's wardrobe, after reading the other review I expected her clothes in the movie to be hideous but the clothes looked okay to me and you also have to remember that when a movie is more then a couple of years old that some of the fashions will maybe look out dated to you, also we can't expect Melissa to be Laura Ingalls forever! As for the sexpot remark, no one in this movie called Melissa's character a sexpot but she was called a looker which is hardly calling someone a sexpot because a looker can mean that someone is beautiful, pretty or just attractive while a sexpot is what you would call someone like Marilyn Monroe, and I think Melissa who was cute when she was little has grown up to be very pretty, and as for the movie I thought it was suspenseful and very interesting with great acting from everyone but especially from Melissa Gilbert and Ted Shackleford and the movie had a very sad ending and though I didn't really cry my eyes out they did get a little misty. I highly recommend this movie and though we taped it when it was shown on television but it has commercials on the tape so I really wouldn't mind if we had this in our video collection but I really wish the movie would be made available on DVD!

I thought the move was an excellent movie. I really have an appreciation for movies of that nature. I also have had a similar experience as the star of the movie did. I wasn't paying attention to the clothes that were worn, but rather the content and the meaning of the movie. It can really make you think about a lot of things if you just sit and actually take the movie for what it is.

As a successful New York fashion designer who has recurring nightmares of a woman falling down an elevator shaft in this TVM directed by Arthur Alan Seidelman, Melissa Gilbert's uncordinated wardrobe is more alarming than any of the plot contrivances that writers George Schenck, Frank Cardea and Brian L Ross provide. The nightmares are diagnosed by a psychiatrist (styled to resemble a horror movie cast member and having a psychadelic hypnosis device) as past life regression which leads Gilbert to San Francisco as their locale.
The teleplay includes howlers like "Stop living in the past" and "I told you 30 years ago I never wanted to see you again", the cliche of Gilbert being grabbed as she looks down the open elevator shaft, and a newspaper clipping entitled "Dead Woman's Motives Still a Mystery ... ". Seidelman provides a cut from the falling woman to a bag being thrown onto a desk, but regrettably also slow motion and tilted camerawork, and even scores a laugh off Gilbert by having someone give her a second look.
Although personally styled to look lovely and playing a woman of 30 which is her real age at the time of filming, Gilbert is hardly the sexpot that all the men keep admiring and her little girl voice undermines her attempt at adult acting. Seidelman does not cast Gilbert as the dead woman. Doing so may have added something to the pedestrian narrative also given the performance of the actress who does play her, but going from Gilbert's otherwise overdone reactions, it's a hard call.