Truly Madly Deeply

Starring:Juliet Stevenson, Jenny Howe, Carolyn Choa, Bill Paterson, Christopher Rozycki, Keith Bartlett, David Ryall, Stella Maris, Ian Hawkes, Deborah Findlay, Alan Rickman, Vania Vilers, Arturo Venegas, Richard Syms, Michael Maloney, Mark Long, Teddy Kempner, Graeme Du-Fresne, Frank Baker (III), Tony Bluto
Director: Anthony Minghella
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Die Hard's Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she's inundated by an endless stream of repair men and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody ... and Jamie's back from the dead.

At first it's bliss. (Think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost--only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.) But Nina gradually realizes it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back, complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do?

Amazon.com

Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Die Hard's Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she's inundated by an endless stream of repair men and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody ... and Jamie's back from the dead.

At first it's bliss. (Think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost--only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.) But Nina gradually realizes it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back, complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do?

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Customer Reviews:

Nostalgia:how we CHOOSE to remember things as they were.......2007-02-18

A truly original concept of showing that things are not exactly as you remembered them to be!!! When someone leaves us, for whatever reasons,as time progresses we tend to only remember all of the wonderful things about that person.Our ache and emptiness are palpable as we feel the void of their absence.Is what we feel totally accurate? This is the theme explored in this quite quirky comedy (of sorts) starring widowed Nina (a young vteran screen icon Juliet Stevenson) and her all-to-present ghost -of-a-husband Jamie (a much younger Alan Rickman).Nina just can't reconcile herself with Jamie's sudden and almost-silly death from a "sore throat".She numbly paces out each day,miserable without him,lost in a world filled with all of the trmendous goodness and passion that Jamie was......OR WAS HE??? See how two of the finest Brit actors play out this darkly-rich comedy.The screenplay,as well as the pace itself, can be a tad slow in the beginning,but Stevens and Rickman do their neurotic best to keep this very different film afloat.Each actor has gone on to such acclaim, that it is wonderful to see them in their earlier days.

This has to be the sweetest movie ever!.......2006-09-19

This is an audio feast, which I would have given 4.5 stars had I the option only because of a few scenes which took a bit long for my taste. Actually, just the singing/playing together scene when he first returns took my attention out of the film for a moment.

I think these actors were chosen for their incredible and complex voices, which I think Minghella tends to do. I love to hear people speak, who listen to and feel their words. Then, add the cello and it is just lovely, lovely, lovely.

This is such an honest film. The characters are more like actual people than any other movie I've ever seen. They are completely comfortable with one another, and funny in the most imperfect way. Their relationship *feels* like a good marriage, and the movie takes its time in bringing you to feel that. The ending is impossible to get through without welling up, even after watching it several times.

It isn't a simple film, but it is incredibly sweet.

Truly Great! .......2006-08-12

This is one of my all time favorites. The plot, theme, characters/actors, situations, dialogue, mood & beautiful music throughout - this is just an excellent movie on every level!

Better then "Ghost"!!!.......2006-07-01

I loved, loved, LOVED this movie!!! First of all the acting was great, but the story was also beautiful. Jamie (Rickman) dies from complications from a sore throat and leaves a grieving Nina (Stevenson) behind. Her grief is so bad that Jamie returns as a ghost to her and she is happy once again. Eventually, Jamie invites his dead friends to stay with them, and Nina meets a magician named Mark (Michael Maloney) and must decide between her past with Jamie or a future with Mark. This is a definite date movie and I would recommend it to anyone who liked "Ghost", because you will like this film.

Brilliant!.......2006-05-06

I just got my DVD in today and watched it as soon as I got it out of the box! This is a magnificent movie! I laughed, I cried, I did both at the same time! The actors were amazing, I already love Alan Rickman, he's brilliant in everything he does but him and Juliet Stevenson together made an amazing team. I highly recommend this to everyone, it is worth every penny spent and is a must have for your movie collection.

Truly Madly Deeply (Cello) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]

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Truly Madly Deeply (Cello) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
Director: Anthony Minghella
Manufacturer: MCP
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000N1H252

Product Description

Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: French (Mono), English (Dolby Surround), Danish (Subtitles), Dutch (Subtitles), Finnish (Subtitles), French (Subtitles), Norwegian (Subtitles), Swedish (Subtitles), SYNOPSIS: The thinking person's "Ghost": 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 musical partnership, and when Jamie dies, Nina takes it very hard. The condolences of friends and relatives don't help much when everything in the apartment they shared reminds her of him. She's a real basket case, and can barely get on with her life. One day, while plunking dejectedly on the piano, Nina looks up to discover Jamie, in ghostly form, lively as ever and just as loving. With a few new wrinkles (such as parties which include Jamie's newfound ghost friends), they resume living their relationship almost as before. Nina's friends are puzzled at her change from suicidal despondency to giddy cheefulness, but Jamie has pledged Nina to secrecy about their renewed relationship. For that reason, she cannot find any good excuses for not responding to the romantic advances of a living man, Mark (Michael Maloney). Before long, she will have to choose between the two of them SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s),

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