April 11, 2007
I heard raves about this movie but I thought it was horrendous. Stagey, saccharine and painfully PC.
Juliet Stevenson,
Alan Rickman,
Bill Paterson,
Michael Maloney,
Jenny Howe
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Pianist Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and cellist Jamie (Alan Rickman) played together and loved together. When they weren't making music with each other, they made love. It was an idyllic romantic and musi... read more
DVD Release Date: December 26, 2001
Stats: 735 reviews
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April 25, 2011A beautiful and funny romantic drama/comedy about a woman who can't get past the death of her boyfriend, and he comes back as a ghost to help her. I love this movie.
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September 24, 2009Such a sweet film. It?s so sad. My only criticism is that I find some of the cast a little too luvvie! Certainly Anthony Minghella best film I feel!
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March 21, 2009"You're telling me there are dead people in my living room watching videos?"
The scenes between Jamie and Nina: ****
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March 4, 2008One of the few "Romantic Comedies" that I actually like. It really is rather dark as "romantic comedies" go (perhaps that's why I like it?) but also very sweet and moving.
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May 29, 2007I really liked this film, but I'll probably never watch it again. It was too painful! Most I ever cried over a movie until I saw Ordet. But it has some really good lessons about how grieving is OK, but at some point you need to move on.
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March 7, 2007Subtle comedy dealing with grief and loss that only upper middle class english professionals could possibly relate to. Juliet Stephenson's performance is marvellous, but it's also unbearably pretentious in places (see the cringeworthy hopping sequence.). I also cannot understand ... read more
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September 24, 2008The sun ain't gonna shine anymore. The moon ain't gonna rise in the skies. Tears are always clouding your eyes when you're without love... Baaaby!
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April 5, 2008OK, watched this twice, really wanted to like it due to Mr. Minghella, but I just don't get it. Had real potential in places - Juliet Stevenson's breakdown in her therapist's office was impressive - but other scenes were completely offputting.
Critic Reviews
March 18, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
March 18, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety
This sharply scripted study of a bereaved woman who literally wishes her partner back from the grave is an impressive directorial bow by British playwright Anthony Minghella. Full Review
August 30, 2004
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Miss Stevenson, Mr. Rickman and Mr. Maloney, good actors all, work tirelessly on behalf of the insistently gooey and smug material. Full Review
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Minghella lays on the whimsy a bit thick at times, but his wryly funny and heartfelt observations on sorrow go down much easier than the Hollywood brand of lump-in-the-throat histrionics.
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
It's a sweetly affecting tug of the heart. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
All of these passages of the movie are convincing, in a strange way: This is sort of a Ghost for grownups. Full Review
May 26, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
A wonderful, bittersweet little romantic comedy. Full Review
February 9, 2006
Time Out
As a metaphor for the experience of bereavement, the conceit is over-extended, though Stevenson almost makes it work. Full Review
May 13, 2005
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
off-beat and involving
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