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Always

1989

Steven Spielberg

Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn ...

5.4

5,350

Adventure. Drama. Fantasy This remake of the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE stars Richard Dreyfuss as Pete Sandich, a daredevil pilot who specializes in putting out forest fires. Pete promises his girlfriend, Dorinda (Holly Hunter), that he will stop flying, but when his best friend, Al (John Goodman), gets into engine trouble while fighting a blaze, Pete attempts a daring rescue--saving his friend but killing himself. Waking up in the afterlife, Pete meets an angel, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"A relatively small scale, engagingly casual, somewhat silly, but always entertaining fantasy."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The result is a curiosity: a remake that wasn't remade enough (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"A better title for 'Always' (...) might be 'Forever', which is roughly its running time (...) [A] gargantuan nonsense."	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Gentle and moving as it means to be, 'Always' is overloaded. There is barely a scene here that wouldn't have worked better with less fanfare."	NEU
United Kingdom	Bob McCabe Empire	"Touching, but this is nowhere near the type of film [Spielberg]'ll be remembered for (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Bilge Ebiri Rolling Stone	"[A] tepid, over-produced romance (...) [Spielberg] can’t make the love-story sparks fly at all."	NEG
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Always' is an unfulfilled promise, a plummeting dove"	NEG
United Kingdom	Colette Maude Time Out	"After an unpromising beginning, which conveys the couple's tediously arrogant exchanges, the film gathers force in its examination of grief and longing (...) An overblown conclusion."	NEU

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