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Waking the Dead (film)
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| Directed by | Keith Gordon |
| Produced by | Keith Gordon Stuart Kleinman Linda Reisman |
| Written by | Robert Dillon (screenplay) Scott Spencer (novel) |
| Starring | Billy Crudup Jennifer Connelly Molly Parker Janet McTeer Paul Hipp Sandra Oh Hal Holbrook |
| Music by | tomandandy |
| Cinematography | Tom Richmond |
| Editing by | Jeff Wishengrad |
| Distributed by | Polygram USA |
| Release date(s) | January 22, 2000 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Language | English |
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Waking the Dead is a 2000 film directed by Keith Gordon and starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
The movie is set in the 1970s and 1980s and follows Fielding Pierce (Crudup), a US Congressman to be. The story centers on the relationship between him and his girlfriend (Connelly), a staunch Catholic girl and his reactions to her apparent death. It is however never made fully clear to the audience or especially Pierce if her death is real or not.
It is based on the novel by the same name by Scott Spencer. Jodie Foster was the executive producer on this film about love between two people strong enough to transcend death. The questions it poses are not easily answered. Can we ever forget real love and move on? Are those we loved still with us somehow after death?
Jennifer Connelley is Sarah Williams, a young and bright girl with who tries to make a difference by aiding her church's efforts in Chile to smuggle out refugees when a bomb explodes, changing the life of her lover Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) forever.
What follows are shifts in time as we see the young John Kennedy-like Fielding who falls in love with Sarah, a woman who conflicts with his political goals.
Fielding is about to become a congressman while at the same time he is unsure if he is losing his sanity. A snowy night turns dark and he feels Sarah in the snow surrounding him. He begins to see her watching him. Is it possible she is still alive? Or is love reaching across the threshold of death?
- Ed Harris has a cameo appearance, it was originally a bigger part but it got cut out of the movie.
- Waking the Dead author Scott Spencer also has a cameo - he appears in a flashback, walking down the street with Jennifer Connelly.
- The now defunct band Hey Mercedes featured an extended sample of a Billy Crudup monologue from the film on the band's last EP and song, "Unorchestrated (live)".
- Sarah Williams is also the name of Jennifer Connelly's character in the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film, Labyrinth.