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Title: Hereafter (2010)
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| Cécile de France | ... | Marie Lelay | |
| Thierry Neuvic | ... | Didier | |
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Cyndi Mayo | ... | Island Hotel Clerk (as Cyndi Mayo Davis) |
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Lisa Griffiths | ... | Stall Owner |
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Jessica Griffiths | ... | Island Girl |
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Ferguson Reid | ... | Rescuer |
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Derek Sakakura | ... | Rescuer |
| Jay Mohr | ... | Billy | |
| Richard Kind | ... | Christos | |
| Matt Damon | ... | George Lonegan | |
| Charlie Creed-Miles | ... | Photographer | |
| Frankie McLaren | ... | Marcus / Jason | |
| George McLaren | ... | Marcus / Jason | |
| Lyndsey Marshal | ... | Jackie | |
| Rebekah Staton | ... | Social Worker | |
A drama centered on three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. George Lonegan (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, French journalist, Marie Lelay (Cécile de France) has a near-death experience which shakes her reality, and when London schoolboy Marcus (identical twins Frankie McLaren and George McLaren) loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each looking to understand the one thing all life has in common, but can never share, their lives will cross, changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter. Written by Warner Bros. Pictures
Hereafter is a slow, quiet study on the effect that death and the dearly departed have on the living.
It's not really a ghost story or even a very supernatural movie. The three main characters each have felt death's power in different ways in their life. George (Matt Damon), a man who can contact the deceased, has fled from his abilities because they keep him from having a normal life. Marie (Cecile de France) is a journalist who has a near-death experience during a tsunami, and becomes consumed with understanding what she saw. And in London, a young British boy is desperate to contact a lost family member one last time.
The three separate stories do eventually connect, but that's not really where the value of Hereafter lies. I can see this film being a source of frustration for some viewers eager for a traditional conflict and resolution or character arc, but those things aren't really Eastwood's priority.The movie doesn't have much of a "point", other than how death is such an important part of all of our lives, even as it's also probably the most mysterious.
I liked it, but I'm hesitant in recommending it. Slow-paced movies like these need the right audience. It's fairly different from Eastwood's other movies, and I wouldn't mind seeing him tackle something like this, again.