Dead Again
- Original title
- Dead Again
- Year
- 1991
- Running time
- 107 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Emma Thompson
- Kenneth Branagh
- Andy García
- Robin Williams
- Derek Jacobi
- Hanna Schygulla
- Campbell Scott
- Wayne Knight
- Richard Easton
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery. Thriller | Crime. Ensemble Film. 1940s
- Synopsis
- Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts to help her regain her memory bring them to Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), a mysterious hypnotist who runs an antique shop. Under hypnosis, Grace claims that in a previous life she was Margaret Strauss, a concert pianist who was murdered by her jealous husband, Roman. Further sessions lead her to believe that Mike is actually Roman reincarnated and that the two are destined to re-create the murder. Mike must then attempt to solve two mysteries--the real identity of Grace and the true story behind a 40-year-old crime.
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- Awards
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1992: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection1991: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Original Score1991: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Derek Jacobi)1991: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Ten Films.
- Critics' reviews
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"Deliciously witty and entertaining… A first-rate thriller"
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"With its stylized black-and-white sequences and fast-paced melodramatic plot, this homage to film noir is both intense and purposely self-conscious."
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"The more Branagh strains to appear “cinematic,'' the more he looks like a man of the theater."
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"A big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama"
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"It's fun to see somebody revive the amnesia genre - how long has it been? - but the conceit quickly grows irksome"
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"Loads of fun even if it's ultimately strangled by its excesses"
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"Directing with an eye to "Rebecca," Branagh brings more mood than suspense to this apparent hommage to Hitchcock. Still, he raises no goose bumps."
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"The ambitious, initially intriguing Dead Again fails so spectacularly it may well become the fetish of a camp cult."
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