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Waking the Dead

Billy Crudup (Actor), Bill Haugland (Actor), Keith Gordon (Director, Producer) Rated:
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Actor-turned-director Keith Gordon has crafted a touching love story that transcends time, political ideology, and even death. The movie opens in 1974 as Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) watches a TV news report announcing the death in Chile of three American activists, including Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), his one true love. The story flashes back to when they first met, showing how he was always more conservative, with grand political aspirations, but the relationship worked because they both shared dreams of making the world a better place, one from inside the system and the other from outside. The movie also flashes forward to his life in the early '80s, when he gets tapped to run for Congress. He starts having visions of her, but he is never quite sure if she's a hallucination arising out of his stress, a manifestation of his political consciousness, an out-and-out ghost, or maybe she's still alive somehow. Whatever she is, his deep longing for her is making him crack up. Gordon smartly jumps the story back and forth in time, forgoing an "objective" reality in favor of a more subjective and emotional one. It is a structure based on memory, and that in tandem with the content is what makes Waking the Dead a very powerful film indeed.--Andy Spletzer

Special Features

  • 30 minutes of Deleted Footage

Product Details

  • Actors: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll, Jennifer Connelly
  • Directors: Keith Gordon
  • Writers: Robert Dillon, Scott Spencer
  • Producers: Keith Gordon, Irene Litinsky, Jodie Foster, Linda Reisman, Stuart Kleinman
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English (Unknown)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Polygram USA Video
  • DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6306010947
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,381 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Waking the Dead" on IMDb

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4.0 out of 5 starslove and idealism
By Rollo Tomassi on January 28, 2009
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Perhaps Americans are simply ignorant of recent history, but still, I have a hard time believing that no one writing a review of this film has mentioned that Scott Spencer and Keith Gordon based the character of "Sarah" very closely on an actual person: Ronni Moffitt, the young political activist killed in the car-bomb assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier in 1976. (agents of the Pinochet regime were convicted of the murders). Some might say the particulars of Moffitt's life shouldn't really have much to do with the success or failure of Waking the Dead as a fictional dramatic work, and in a narrow sense, that's true. But as the nature of this movie is the struggle of the higher duty of idealism vs. the earthly satisfaction of love, the real-life activism of Moffitt is relevant because of the way it "grounds" the idealism of Sarah. As much as conservative believers in the supremacy of the self might want to think it absurd, there really were and are people who sacrific to make things better. And the dramatic "path" of this movie is Fielding's slow back-and-forth realization, though the thickets of his lost love, of the ultimate importance of idealistic sacrific. This is why the movie's final scene (don't worry -- I won't give it away here), which no one else has mentioned, is so crucially important.
On the filmmaking details I have little to add. Crudup and Connelly, superb in so many other films, are superb here. Gordon's flashback-and-forward technique occasionally seems artsy but functions well enough in conveying the story. Challenging and moving.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAbsolutely mesmerizing...Real life, at last!
By J. P. Ferraz on August 14, 2002
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Very few movies remain in your mind long, long after the curtain falls. Waking the Dead shall be considered a masterpiece of historic, as well as behavioral standpoint. From mid 60's to late 70's, the World has changed in a way we - the baby boomers, cannot forget, yet we find an intense difficulty to forward those values to today's generations. As I was a grown man at the time, the film touches me particularly through the process of bringing back the political process in the Americas by then.
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba and the US were in turmoil: in politics, in the Arts, everywhere. However, we still remained deeply marked by a certain blend of idealism, naiveness and a remarkable determination to correctness in every aspect of Life. Those values seem to have vanished in present times!
This said, it becomes easier to understand the script behind the scenes and the disturbances in Fielding's mind. Crudup's interpretation should have earned him the Oscar, but not alone.
Jennifer Connelly's Sarah was so real that has trascended her natural and amazing beauty to produce a couple in love which rarely exists today.
Their love scenes approached moments of ECTASY very few actor/actresses have the power to produce so realisticaly. Jennifer's path to her deserved Oscar with A Beatiful Mind was clearly set thereat.
One must have lived those experiences to understand that everything in the movie looks like watching tapes - of real life - long buried in his/her mind.
Thank you Gordon, for this movie!
Thank you Crudup, for your remarkable talent and for reminding us of cruel times and the victory of love over them;
Thank you, Jennifer, for making us forget your amazing beauty and concentrate on your mesmerizing Sarah.
An absolute marterpiece!
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4.0 out of 5 starsA classic tale in the Shakesprearion sense
By cm brown on November 5, 2000
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A very compelling movie about true love, sacrifice and our own abitions... and what happens when they seemingly collide. It's a story about two very different people, with two very different views of the world, superfically opposing views - and yet they are really very much the same. All told from the main character Fielding's point of view.
It's a story told from the middle about Fielding and Sarah, and her tragic death. It brings you through Fielding's coming to terms with her life, and his. The one thing they have in common is each other, and the real "why" they want what they want. It's haunting and captivating. A tale of lost love. A story about reconcilling life choices..those things we sacrifice everything for, and how we sometimes forget, what we were trying to do in the first place.
It's a tale about that reality check. Fielding coming to terms with his conscious. The "whys". Maybe the true realization of his own destiny - and his true love, and what this all means when you find out maybe you somehow got lost on the way...
It's also a lesson. Love doesn't come - or go so easily. It haunts and reminds you of why you love in the first place. Sometimes the hardest choices, are the ones you don't really get to make. We long to be whole. We "need" that part of us that we are lacking or miss. For whom chooses who and why we love?
It's a tragedy in the traditional shakespeare sense. A great story, and great movie. A story of two people who "need" each other to fufill their own destiny, and they do. Sarah just has to remind Fielding what it's all about. Even it's only his heart reminding him.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb performances, direction in this haunting love story
By R.L. Holly on February 4, 2005
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Keith Gordon has again bowled me over with a magnificent piece of filmmaking. "Waking the Dead" shares many of the same elements as his "A Midnight Clear" (still in my view the best WWII drama of modern times) -- a skillful adaptation of a powerful novel, intense performances from the entire cast, and careful attention to the rhythm and pacing of his story. And two other things that are especially rare in today's mainstream movies: the deliberate ambiguity of the ending and nuanced characters that are neither black nor white but multiple shades of grey. Hollywood must hate this, and it must baffle many moviegoers. The general public is force-fed so many lifeless, undemanding, predictable movies with cardboard characters that they probably didn't reward this gem at the box office (Gordon's commentary track implies that this movie was a semi-flop, commercially, which is tragic -- and probably makes it only harder for him to continue to shoot quality films). One hopes "Waking the Dead" will find its audience on home video, much as the well-respected "A Midnight Clear" (which I saw several times in the theatre) seems to have.

Another reviewer has pointed out the double-meaning behind the title -- the "dead" here refers to both Sarah, believed to be physically dead, and Fielding, who has found his soul wasting away since losing her. Can Fielding bring himself as well as Sarah back to life? The story is also tellingly noncommittal as to Sarah's actual status. By the end of the film, we still don't know if Sarah is secretly alive, a ghost from the other side, or simply a product of Fielding's mental breakdown. Everything in the script leaves the question wide open for interpretation, and the effect is both chilling and intensely moving.Read more ›
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