A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near death experiences.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kevin Costner | ... | Joe Darrow | |
| Susanna Thompson | ... | Emily Darrow | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Hugh Campbell | |
| Ron Rifkin | ... | Charlie Dickinson | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Mrs. Belmont | |
| Robert Bailey Jr. | ... | Jeffrey Reardon | |
| Jacob Smith | ... | Ben | |
| Jay Thomas | ... | Hal | |
| Lisa Banes | ... | Flora | |
| Matt Craven | ... | Eric | |
| Casey Biggs | ... | Neil Darrow | |
| Leslie Hope | ... | Charisse Darrow | |
| Peter Hansen | ... | Phillip Darrow | |
| Mary Beth Fisher | ... | Eulogist | |
| Kim Staunton | ... | Intake Nurse | |
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Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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When someone you love dies... are they gone forever?Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Release Date:
22 February 2002 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$60,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$10,216,025, 24 February 2002, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$30,063,805, 7 April 2002Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$52,353,400Company Credits
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Emily Darrow: [over the phone] It's bad, Joe. They're evacuating the villages. We're about to be washed out. We're hearing gunfire now.
Joe Darrow: Can you... can you get to Calamar? Can you get across the border to Columbia?
Emily Darrow: They're putting us on the bus. I don't know where they're taking us. Joe? Joe?
Joe Darrow: Emily!
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Written by Randy Coleman
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Gavin MacKillop
Performed by Zoo Story
Courtesy of 3:33 Music Group
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The character Joe Darrow was written with the intention of Harrison Ford taking the part. Ford turned down the role to take a year off from movies. See more »Goofs
After Dr. Darrow jumps a few stories into a raging river, gets dragged through the rapids and nearly drowns in a bus he gets rescued, but the following day his clothes are neatly pressed, clean and neat. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Emily Darrow: [over the phone] It's bad, Joe. They're evacuating the villages. We're about to be washed out. We're hearing gunfire now.
Joe Darrow: Can you... can you get to Calamar? Can you get across the border to Columbia?
Emily Darrow: They're putting us on the bus. I don't know where they're taking us. Joe? Joe?
Joe Darrow: Emily!
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Alternate Versions
The DVD also features the following scenes:- Joe performing surgery and Hugh asking him if he's comfortable playing God
- Joe seeing the boy Jeffrey in his house before waking up from a dream; an alternate end to the dinner where Joe is called away from dinner with the Darrows - they briefly discuss how they tried to get him to go into private practice and then he has a flashback to him and his wife listening to their unborn child
- the bit from the trailer with Emily emerging from the hospital elevator mentioned earlier
- and another bit where Joe sees a beckoning Emily in the hospital as a nurse discusses a eye transplant.
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StarWritten by Randy Coleman
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Gavin MacKillop
Performed by Zoo Story
Courtesy of 3:33 Music Group
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The ending was the best part of this movie. The twist in the ending gives some credibility to the journey of the lead character, but Kevin Costner's character exhibited characteristics one would not expect of a doctor, let alone head of the emergency room. This gave Costner's character less credibility throughout where even the good twist at the end couldn't salvage it. There were also some relationships that could have been better developed. This movie seemed to focus primarily on Kevin Costner's character through placing utmost importance on his perspective when development would have been better achieved through more insightful development of the relationships that support him. For example, the character's relationship with his supervisor could have been less cold, maybe reflected more of a complex camaraderie. I believe these relationships (the supervisor, Kathy Bates as the next-door neighbor) could have offered more insight into the relationship between Joe Darrow and his wife Emily than was reflected in the film.
All in all, I was disappointed with the film. It had a great premise that needed a deeper message, a stronger pull throughout the film. It's best asset was the twist at the end. I like Kevin Costner as an actor, but this didn't seem to challenge him enough.