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Always (1989)

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A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for dare-devil firefighting and his girl.

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Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together. Written by Reid Gagle

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They couldn't hear him. They couldn't see him. But he was there when they needed him... Even after he was gone.

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22 December 1989 (USA)  »

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Siempre  »

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$31,000,000 (estimated)

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$43,858,790 (USA)
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When Dorinda returns home in the plane, she is dressed like Ripley from Aliens, and similarly, she has a ginger tom cat. The cat, however, is named Linda Blair. See more »

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When Al's cigar catches fire, nearly half of it goes up in flames. When we see it a few moments later, only the tip is lit. See more »

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Dorinda Durston: [upon opening a gift to discover it's an evening gown] Girl clothes!
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"SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES"
Written by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach
Performed and Produced by JD Souther
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A graceful swan song for Audrey Hepburn
11 February 2001 | by (Calgary, Canada) – See all my reviews

At first glance, Always looks like a variation of Ghost, until one realizes it is a remake of a much older movie. But it has something Ghost certainly did not have -- Audrey Hepburn.

In what would be her final big-screen appearance, Audrey is radiant as the angel Hap, who appears all too briefly in the film. From the moment her famous voice is heard, time seems to stop. True, Audrey doesn't have a lot to say -- although her Doctor Who-like non-explanation about time is funny -- the few moments she is on screen are minutes to treasure. If Judi Dench and Ingrid Bergman were able to get Oscars for glorified cameos, it's a shame Hepburn didn't rate a nomination.

Of course, much of what's special about Audrey's role in this film comes from hindsight -- the fact she only had a couple more years to live, and the fact she had only appeared a few times on film in the previous 20 years. But we can be thankful to Steven Spielberg for not only getting Audrey to make the appearance, but also for giving her a classy film in which to make her swan song.


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