Cold Heaven (1991)An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life. Director:Nicolas Roeg |
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Cold Heaven (1991)An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life. Director:Nicolas Roeg |
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Marie Davenport
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| Mark Harmon | ... |
Alex Davenport
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| James Russo | ... |
Daniel Corvin
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| Will Patton | ... |
Father Niles
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| Richard Bradford | ... |
Monsignor Cassidy
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| Julie Carmen | ... |
Anna Corvin
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| Talia Shire | ... |
Sister Martha
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| Diana Douglas | ... |
Mother St. Agnes
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| Seymour Cassel | ... |
Tom Farrelly
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| Castulo Guerra | ... |
Dr. DeMencos
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Daniel Ades | ... |
Dr. Mendes
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Jim Ishida | ... |
Dr. Tanaki
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| Jeanette Miller | ... |
Sister Katarina
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Martha Milliken | ... |
Sister Anna
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Margarita Cordova | ... |
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A woman is planning to leave her husband for another man when hubby has a nasty accident. She keeps getting flashbacks of something compelling that had happened to her a year before, which builds to a supernatural encounter. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Nicolas Roeg ? He directed the classic supernatural thriller DON`T LOOK NOW didn`t he ? Strangely the aforementioned movie was broadcast on BBC television at the weekend which did tonight`s screening of COLD HEAVEN no favours what so ever .
You see it`s impossible not to compare COLD HEAVEN with DON`T LOOK NOW since they both have the same director and the same structure and for the first third of COLD HEAVEN I thought they also had the same plot except a dead husband had been substituted instead of a dead child , in fact my mind was set on this movie revolving around a grief stricken widow seeing her late husband running around Venice wearing a red anorak . This doesn`t occur but about one third of the way through the running time there`s a massive plot twist and despite being an essential plot twist it`s not explained in any great depth . In fact very little is explained in COLD HEAVEN which ruins the movie
People have mentioned the rather poor production values of COLD HEAVEN and it`s impossible not to notice them . If I didn`t no different I would have thought this was a TVM since it`s got a made for television feel to it right down to white capital letters in the title sequence . Roeg also tries to inject art house pretentions via spoken thought processes but again this doesn`t help the movie at all . One can`t help feeling Roeg should have put all his effort into the plot twists which are totally flat on screen
Cheap production values , disinterested directing and a really bizarre premise and screenplay make for a bad movie