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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Mike Hodges (writer)
Release Date:
3 October 1997 (USA)
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Tagline:
She can see the killer's face. She knows the victim's name. The only thing she doesn't know ... is when the murder will take place.
Plot:
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive...
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5 wins
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2 nominations
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rosanna Arquette | ... | Martha Travis | |
| Jason Robards | ... | Walter Travis | |
| Tom Hulce | ... | Gary Wallace | |
| Mark Joy | ... | Lloyd Harley | |
| Ron Rosenthal | ... | Lieutenant Irving Weinberg | |
| John Bennes | ... | Ted Silas | |
| Linda Pierce | ... | Mary Kuron | |
| Olek Krupa | ... | Tom Kuron | |
| Marty Terry | ... | Mrs. Adams | |
| Ed Grady | ... | Editor, Geoff McBain (as Ed L. Grady) | |
| Jon Thompson | ... | Jack Callow | |
| Helen Baldwin | ... | Eva Callow | |
| Darla N. Warner | ... | Shirley Harley | |
| Christopher L. Gray | ... | Choirmaster | |
| Lucy Williams | ... | Choirlady |
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Runtime:
103 min | Argentina:95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) |
Finland:K-16 (original rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Netherlands:16 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Iceland:14 (original rating)
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Martha Travis:
Men lie with me, not to me!
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Movie Connections:
Features White Heat (1949)
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Soundtrack:
HE'S SO WONDERFUL
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The script is filled with a series of chilling twists which Hodges plays with an absolute and certain confidence - the eeriness as Arquette's first vision starts to come, and her agitation and attempts to cover as what she is performing turns to real; the second vision where she reels off a list of names of the dead trying to contact the living and said people still alive in the audience start standing up puzzled. Hodges' depiction of a seedy con-job slowly becoming darker is beautifully written. The imagery as Arquette's vistas of heavenly meadows and tranquil afterlife cliches start to change into impressions of cancers, empty lives and of people suffering is a stunning and powerful one. The final soliloquy Arquette gives, coming out to taunt the audience - how they want there to be an afterlife so they can confirm their own lives, how if there wasn't an afterlife and what they had was all that they were given, then wouldn't that make her a fake ? - is superbly written and utterly rivetting in delivery. Arquette's performance in the film is exceptional.