Product Details

• Actors: Peter Gallagher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Laurie Fortier, Wendy Crewson
• Directors: Michael Pressman
• Writers: David E. Kelley, Michael Brady
• Producers: David E. Kelley, Marykay Powell, Terry Morse Jr.
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: May 7, 2002
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063JZN
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,962 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Michelle Pfeiffer's husband, television producer David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal), is partially responsible for this entertaining tearjerker about a widower (Peter Gallagher) who can't let go of his late wife and whose relationship with his adolescent daughter (Claire Danes) is stalled as a result. Invited for a weekend at the beach by his worried sister-in-law (Kathy Baker), Gallagher's character faces various humiliations (he's been set up to meet a single woman) and fatherly crises (his growing girl is attracted to a local boy). Pfeiffer plays the ghost of the dead woman and Danes is terrific, but it's Gallagher who gets a rare opportunity to carry the ball for an entire feature, and he does it very well. Michael Pressman directed what is, in the end, a very nice movie. --Tom Keogh

Product Description
Youre invited to gillians 37th birthday. There will be music in the air..Castles in the sand..And someone totally unexpected at the party. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer Freddie Prinze Jr Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Michael Pressman

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He knows she's dead, September 27, 2004

By	Joshua B. Smith "author of Practical Ocaml" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Here's the thing about this movie: He knows she's dead. A lot of the other reviewers here seem to forget that he acknowledges she's dead but that doesn't matter. She is dead but not gone. For some people, that statement sounds like some kind of sacchrine line to calm children. Sometimes it's the truth, though, and that's what this movie is about.

The movie does take itself seriously, but the subject IS serious. This is a solid movie, it's not a great film. Taking yourself seriously is not the same as claiming greatness. David Kelly is a capable director and the cast has chemistry and participate in the telling of a good story. That's it. It's a good story, and a fine film.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Relate Deeply To This Movie, July 31, 2003

By A Customer

Having lost my wife under similiar circumstances, I experienced exactly What Peter Gallagher's acting expressed in this Film. His moving potrail of deep grief was so much like what I was experiencing it was chilling. The film did make me realize, that its time to move on.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars David R. Kelly guts a touchingly beautiful play, June 17, 2002

By	John Munn, Jr. (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Once upon a time, Michael Brady wrote a wonderfully, touching play called TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY. It was a story about a man refusing to come to grips with losing his wife in a terrible accident and keeping her alive through conversations with her on the beach. By living in his false world, he is losing sight of the real world and his daughter who is drifting away from him.

It was a simply written, yet complex, story about relationships between people who are still grieving for loved ones and living in the present is worth it for the incredible opportunities that can be found.

David R. Kelly (Ally McBeal, The Practice) disembowels all of the life from a beautiful piece of storytelling and turns it into a very poorly written, poorly acted, Hallmark Hall of Fame special that gives away its dramatic mysteries within the first 15 minutes of the film.

Too bad...My advice: Get the script from Amazon.com...it's under TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY and author MICHAEL BRADY.