The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Richard Dreyfuss | ... | Pete Sandich | |
| Holly Hunter | ... | Dorinda Durston | |
| Brad Johnson | ... | Ted Baker | |
| John Goodman | ... | Al Yackey | |
| Audrey Hepburn | ... | Hap | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Dave | |
| Keith David | ... | Powerhouse | |
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Ed Van Nuys | ... | Nails |
| Marg Helgenberger | ... | Rachel | |
| Dale Dye | ... | Don | |
| Brian Haley | ... | Alex | |
| James Lashly | ... | Charlie | |
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Michael Steve Jones | ... | Grey |
| Kim Robillard | ... | Air Traffic Controller | |
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Jim Sparkman | ... | Dispatcher |
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
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.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 December 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$31,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$43,858,790Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$74,134,790, 31 December 1990Company Credits
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[Al comes roaring up in a jeep, covered in fire retardant; the crowd falls silent]
Al Yackey: Cute. Now we know how ready you are. We're gonna be coming into fire season soon, and if we get a big one - a real big one - they're gonna be calling guys from all over the place. They're gonna be calling veterans, first-timers, guys from all over the country if they have to. And when they call me, they're gonna say, 'Al, ...
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Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Performed by The Coasters
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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When flying to save the fire-jumpers in trouble, the branch that damages the wheel well causing the pressure drop creates the sound effect of a tie-fighter from Star Wars. See more »Goofs
When Dorinda rides her bike onto the airstrip to tell Pete that she loves him before he takes off, she jumps off her bicycle in front of the port engine and it isn't running. She climbs up on the plane to the cockpit scene but when she climbs down to her bicycle the engine is running and Pete is still on his feet in the cockpit so he couldn't have started the engine that fast. It was the reason she couldn't hear him saying "I love you". See more »Quotes
Ted Baker: [being serenaded by the other pilots after a botched exercise] This is first place, right?[Al comes roaring up in a jeep, covered in fire retardant; the crowd falls silent]
Al Yackey: Cute. Now we know how ready you are. We're gonna be coming into fire season soon, and if we get a big one - a real big one - they're gonna be calling guys from all over the place. They're gonna be calling veterans, first-timers, guys from all over the country if they have to. And when they call me, they're gonna say, 'Al, ...
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It has been a while since I have seen this 'Always.' The years, I should say, have done this film justice.
A noted cinephile, I know when to eat my words, and this is one is for the books. Sincere. Honest. Touching. Obviously sparked with a late-eighties, Spielbergian hyper-real, cinematic extensions and flair, these elements do not bog the film downs as, say, with '1941' or 'The Color Purple.' And why should we expect modern filmmakers to be like those of the forties or fifties? Modern filmmakers are just that -- modern.
Holly Hunter is a walking dream and she has talent in droves. I have long had a crush on her and her funny mouth. She is simply enchanting and steals the show. Goodman, for once, is kept under control. Dreyfuss, with the thankless role of revisiting his past and commenting on the future, is the weakest link but only just. Sumptuously photographed by deftly edited, this story of unrequited love is as universal as mothers and babies. If it doesn't bring tears to your eyes, shame on you. The best advice to view this film is to forget it is a Spielberg film. Enjoy it for the love story that it is and sink into its voluptuous and charged charm.
We should all hope we become angels in the mist, able to return to Earth to right all the wrongs of the world.
This may be one Spielberg's most romantic films, next to A.I., which is a supremely magnificent film and, also, equally dismissed when it first arrived on the scene.
I urge all to give this film a second chance.