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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 25, 2002
Pros: Billy Crudup falling apart from grief
Cons: everything else
Summary: I like Lori Carson's song "Snow comes down" that frames this movie, an implausible mess of a movie that I am surprised has beguiled some of epinions' keenest critics, including its #1 executioner, mangiotto. (I also see that more than a fifth of those ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 31, 2009
Pros: Crudup and Connelly; story; presentation
Cons: I'm drawing a complete blank
Summary: Young men become very disturbed, even scared, when they watch Keith Gordon’s Waking The Dead, according to Gordon who directed and largely rewrote the screenplay without getting credit. They become so disturbed, while women and older men do ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 7, 2008
Pros: Connelly and Crudup are sound.
Cons: None of note
Summary: I agree with one statement that one of my fellow reviewers made on epinions. When it comes to using music to set a tone, director Keith Gordon definitely deserves a gold star. For the scene that takes place at Fielding's office towards the end of the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2005
Pros: Believable Sandra Oh as a Korean massage worker dating Fielding's brother for a Green Card
Cons: Draggy plot, unappealing characters, graceless editing, cardboard actors, predictable costuming, poor cinematography
Summary: It's the early 70s and we have an ambitious young man, Fielding Pierce. The name indicates a background of good breeding? He meets Sarah, a do-gooder, perhaps a biblical reference? And they fall in love and she maybe dies. Then it's the 80s and she ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 22, 2001
Pros: Crudup, interesting direction & great music
Cons: too ambiguous, a little slow
Summary: “Waking the Dead” is a dreamy, slightly muddled story about love, and what happens when it isn’t quite perfect. Directed by Keith Gordon (better known, perhaps, for playing Rodney Dangerfield’s son in “Back to School”), the film succeeds in conveying ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2001
Pros: Powerful acting performance
Cons: Storyline doesn't satisfy viewer
Summary: Billy Crudup is becoming an interesting actor who takes risks and plays interesting characters. Just this past weekend I watched his performances in Almost Famous and WAKING THE DEAD. I’ve also recently seen him in Jesus’ Son. All of these roles have ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2001
Pros: Emotionally riveting performances by Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
Cons: None.
Summary: Preamble
Billy Crudup....What a hunk! I passed by this video many times at Blockbuster. Each time, I would pick it up, read the box, and put it down. I am THRILLED that I finally rented it. And actually, I was so stunned by the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 5, 2000
Pros: Evocative performances, emotionally wrenching, politically realistic.
Cons: Time transitions not always well handled.
Summary: Orlando Letelier, a former high-ranking official in Salvador Allende's government in Chile prior to Augusto Pinochet's coup in 1973, was assassinated in a car bombing in Washington DC in September, 1976. With him was a young woman and activist, an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2000
Pros: Existential bliss
Cons: I Vonnegut outta here
Summary: Mother Night-***1/2 (out of five)
Waking the Dead - ***** (out of five)
In "Timequake", arguably the most flawed of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s novels (like many of his fans, I find it only intermittently readable), the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 18, 2000
Pros: Made me Cry
Cons: Made me Cry
Summary: I have been a long standing fan of Connelly's since she played Sarah in the LABYRINTH. She is wonderful here as well. Her soulful expressions make you fall madly in love with her. The intensity she uses is captivating.
This is the story of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 31, 2000
Pros: Tear-jerker & good performance by Billy Crudup
Cons: Can't decide whether it's a tear-jerker, political drama or ghost story - and it's miscast
Summary: Unlike the image-making and double-dealing of recent politically-based films - "The Contender," "Primary Colors," "Wag the Dog" - this is an intimate story about the passions, fears and ambitions that motivate ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 5, 2000
Pros: Strong performances by and chemistry between Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
Cons: A thin story.
Summary: Not much happens in Waking the Dead. There are two parallel plot threads, the outcome of one of which is given away at the film's open. But to knock Keith Gordon's adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel on the thinness of its premise is to miss the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2000
Pros: ?
Cons: politics
Summary: About the only issue that I found remotely scary with this flick is it centers around politics. At this time of the year i guess it fits right in if you keep up with politics.
Waking The Dead, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 5, 2000
Pros: A strongly acted film of political and romantic idealism in our recent history.
Cons: A screenplay that fails to clarify the meaning of the story.
Summary: I came away from Keith Gordon's WAKING THE DEAD reflecting on how political idealism is destroyed by the quixotic nature of American Democracy. At least, this film reveals a soul blown to shards by the shifting events of the last 40 years.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 27, 2000
Pros: Great acting, romantic, enigmatic, touching
Cons: Slow at first, confusing, sad, sad, and sad
Summary: I went to go see this movie because my boyfriend, KS, wanted to. I read a movie review, and thought it was going to be a romantic comedy. I needed a good laugh, and so KS didn't exactly have to twist my arm to get me to join him. Besides, our romance ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2000
Pros: Strong acting, great story, will strengthen the relationship of any couple that watches it
Cons: Overly melodramatic, makes me miss my gf :(
Summary: At the heart of Keith Gordon's Waking the Dead is a very touching love story, there really is. Above all else, you have to remind yourself of this, that there are some painful things you must endure in order to get a glimpse of true love. For better or ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2000
Pros: characters
Cons: flashbacks
Summary: Keith Gordon’s new movie “Waking the Dead” left me a little baffled. On the one hand, there seems to be some genuine emotional pull between the hero Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) and the object of his affection Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly). But on ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 20, 2000
Pros: Extraordinary performance by Billy Crudup. Good chemistry between the co-stars.
Cons: The female lead character was too unsympathetic.
Summary: The strong onscreen chemistry between Billy Crudup (Fielding) and Jennifer Connelly (Sara), the two stars of Keith Gordon's ("A Midnight Clear", "Mother Night") romantic drama, was essential for the audience to believe that their ... read more
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Not rated yet by the Epinions community Aug 6, 2004
Pros: Captivating movie
Cons: Needs a better ending.
Summary: Director Keith Gordon has made an under-rated movies that deserves consideration. The movie opens in the early 1970s as Fielding (Billy Crudup) sees TV news report. Suddenly the girl he loved the most, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is dead. The
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Based On A Scott Spencer Novel. In 1974, A Man Loses The Loveof His Life In A Terrorist Attack.Eight Years Later, He Liveswith Another Woman, Is An At...
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