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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)
Rated PG-13 for thematic material and mild sensuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
22 February 2002 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El misterio de la libélula See more »Edit
Box Office
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:
$21,500,000, 18 August 2002Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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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 Realtor sign in front of Joe's house has an actual phone number of 312-257-2738 for Curtiss Real Estate on it instead of the usual 555 exchange. The 257 exchange is invalid for the Chicago 312 area code. 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 features a cut scene Joe and Charlie playing raquetball. See more »Soundtracks
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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There is something strange about 'Dragonfly'. It is not a thriller in its subject but it deals with it as if it's a thriller. Even more strange, in some scenes it actually succeeds in that. I mean, when your wife has died and she is trying to reach you from the other side is something else than simply seeing dead people. Your wife probably has the best intentions and although it is creepy you do not have to be scared of your dead wife. I guess. The man who thinks his dead wife is trying to reach him is Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner). Is he going mad, a premise for a dramatic film, or is he really connecting to the other side?
At times where his wife is communicating with Joe, at least to Joe's knowledge, the film breaths a creepy atmosphere with a cinematography and score that make things suspenseful. But the film does not have its focus on whether Joe is going mad or not, but on how scary it is when a dead person talks to you. That there is actually suspense shows that there is some nice film-making to be found here. The premise is interesting, although not that new, but especially the final act in the film goes wrong at crucial points. There is a moment where I thought the film was over, I will not reveal where, but at that time certain things were left in the middle. It felt like the right ending. But then the film continues, providing it with an ending that must have popped into many heads from the audience, probably dismissed by a lot for being too ridiculous.
Still, the premise and the first hour are good enough to keep us entertained and although it should not work as a thriller, it does. Watching it like that without thinking too much could help you like this film in one way or another.