Waking the Dead

Starring:Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll, Lawrence Dane, Ed Harris, Larry Marshall, Stanley Anderson, Patricia Gage, John Carroll Lynch, Bruce Dinsmore, Mimi Kuzyk, Tony Calabretta, Walter Massey, Maxine Guess
Director: Keith Gordon
Studio: Polygram USA Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Actor-turned-director Keith Gordon has crafted a touching love story that transcends time, political ideology, and even death. The movie opens in 1974 as Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) watches a TV news report announcing the death in Chile of three American activists, including Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), his one true love. The story flashes back to when they first met, showing how he was always more conservative, with grand political aspirations, but the relationship worked because they both shared dreams of making the world a better place, one from inside the system and the other from outside. The movie also flashes forward to his life in the early '80s, when he gets tapped to run for Congress. He starts having visions of her, but he is never quite sure if she's a hallucination arising out of his stress, a manifestation of his political consciousness, an out-and-out ghost, or maybe she's still alive somehow. Whatever she is, his deep longing for her is making him crack up. Gordon smartly jumps the story back and forth in time, forgoing an "objective" reality in favor of a more subjective and emotional one. It is a structure based on memory, and that in tandem with the content is what makes Waking the Dead a very powerful film indeed.--Andy Spletzer

Waking Up Dead
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Raw, Real and Remarkable

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Waking Up Dead
Director: Fabio Jafet
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How do you help someone whose life is spiraling out of control? Make a movie, and make him come face to face with his own demons. For a solid four years, Emmy award winning journalist & filmmaker Fabio Jafet, documented the seedy underworld of the music business through the eyes of friend Phil Varone of Saigon Kick & Skid Row fame. Jafet reveals what really goes on behind the scenes in a way never captured before on camera. Waking Up Dead captures the addictions, betrayals and pitfalls on the relentless road to rock stardom.

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Raw, Real and Remarkable.......2007-06-26

This movie should be required viewing for all aspiring rock stars! (you know who you are) Although at times difficult to watch, it provides a glimpse into the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll life that we all fantasize about living. WUD squelches that fantasy by revealing the harsh, often unpleasant, consequences of life in the *very* fast lane. Whether you're just a curious voyeur, or a lover of great films, this is a MUST see!

Amazing.......2007-06-16

One of the grittiest and hardest hitting films I have ever seen about rock & roll. It is a reminder that fame and fortune doesn't come easy and often there is collateral damage to family and friends. The movie was riveting from start to finish. Warning: This film is extremely graphic and disturbing, no one under 17 should be able to see this. 5 stars!

Waking the Dead - The Complete Season 1 and Pilot Episode

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Great Series
Waking the Dead is an awesome show!!! Addicting
I Enjoyed This Show But--
Waking the Dead - The Complete Season and Pilot Episode
A great cast and good story lines

Waking the Dead - The Complete Season 1 and Pilot Episode
Director: Jim O'Hanlon , Martin Hutchings , Robert Del Maestro , Gary Love , and Ben Bolt (II)
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The Cold Case Unit, led by quick-tempered, no-nonsense copper DS Boyd (Trevor Eve), have assembled to re-examine "unsolvable" crimes with cutting-edge detection techniques. But the pressure is on for this mix of forensics, psychology and detective investigation to yield results.

Customer Reviews:

Great Series.......2007-07-04

Finally found the first season on DVD. This has been one of my favorite shows on BBCAmerica. I thought I had watched all the episodes, but after receiving this set of DVDs, I found I had missed quite a few. If the viewer is into the Cold Case genre, then you will really enjoy this one. It is the British version of Bones, on FOX. The case has to be at least 5 years cold, or a newly discovered skeleton.

Waking the Dead is an awesome show!!! Addicting.......2007-07-04

Finding this on DVD was amazing. Now if we can get the other 6 seasons on DVD in America, right now 5 of them are avail in the UK & Austrailla. IF you have not seen this on BBC America I suggest you check it out. This is a great drama and the characters are ones you can really get into.
HIGHLY RECCOMEND

I Enjoyed This Show But--.......2007-05-28

I think I must have been spoiled by shows like Wire in the Blood - Complete First Season and Touching Evil: Series 1-3 where the cinematography elevates the scenery to a signficant part of the story. It's not C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete First Season that makes me feel this show is a bit slow, it's other British crime dramas. Also, the interrogation scenes especially in the last episodes drag on a bit. But then maybe I've also been spoiled by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect 1 and Kiera Sedgewick in The Closer - The Complete First Season. In fact the interrogation scenes with Grace were interesting and would seem to be going somewhere when Boyd would burst into the room. Often this felt like a deliberate prolongation of a story that should have ended in the first hour.

I will still buy further seasons when they become available.

Waking the Dead - The Complete Season and Pilot Episode.......2007-05-14

I thoroughtly enjoyed the series looking forward to the other series becomeing available.

Series One, very enthralling and sometimes gruesome and Boyd chararacter a bit dark.

A great cast and good story lines.......2007-04-06

I've been watching Waking the Dead since it first came out on BBC America. It was the first of the cold case series, and I think the best one. It's been consistently good over the life of the series and the cast is very good. Trevor Eve is great as Peter Boyd, the head of the team, and the whole cast works well with him. The sometimes tense and antagonistic actions of the team seem very realistic to me. I only wish BBC would continue with the series. It has been over a year since there has been any new shows and I'm really sorry the series seems to have ended.

Waking the Dead: The Complete Season Two

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Starring: Trevor Eve
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look beyond the obvious
Awaken....
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Some movies just don't make you care.
LOVE AFTER DEATH

Waking the Dead
Starring: Billy Crudup , Jennifer Connelly , Molly Parker , Janet McTeer , and Paul Hipp
Director: Keith Gordon
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Actor-turned-director Keith Gordon has crafted a touching love story that transcends time, political ideology, and even death. The movie opens in 1974 as Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) watches a TV news report announcing the death in Chile of three American activists, including Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), his one true love. The story flashes back to when they first met, showing how he was always more conservative, with grand political aspirations, but the relationship worked because they both shared dreams of making the world a better place, one from inside the system and the other from outside. The movie also flashes forward to his life in the early '80s, when he gets tapped to run for Congress. He starts having visions of her, but he is never quite sure if she's a hallucination arising out of his stress, a manifestation of his political consciousness, an out-and-out ghost, or maybe she's still alive somehow. Whatever she is, his deep longing for her is making him crack up. Gordon smartly jumps the story back and forth in time, forgoing an "objective" reality in favor of a more subjective and emotional one. It is a structure based on memory, and that in tandem with the content is what makes Waking the Dead a very powerful film indeed.--Andy Spletzer

Customer Reviews:

look beyond the obvious.......2007-05-13

people, people. look beyond the obvious. this isnt a love story. it isnt a ghost story. it isnt a story about politics. it is a story about waking what lies dead inside of us. it isnt about the love he had for her dying- it is about what was awake and alive in him- what she had awakened in him when they met- not love- but a passion for life. a purpose. the both were idealistic and had a zest for the power that politics and activism had for contributing to life- to make a difference. dont you remember the scene towards the end, when he has finally been "awakened" again to himself, and he reads the letters that his constituents have written to him, that he FINALLY SEES THEM? not as hallucinations- but as people. he is touched by them. it is no longer a job that he can go thru blindly anymore, just for the political power and fame. he can no longer go thru life, "dead" or numb. this is the 'dead' that is awakened in him- thus "waking the dead."
i thought this movie was fantastic how it took you through the process of his journey back to himself. just great.

Awaken...........2007-05-13

Beautiful film. Billy Crudup gives a performance of his carrer. Connelly is great to watch and strong. Well played film. Don't blink or you'll miss Ed Harris appear on a TV screen. The movie tuggs at heart strings. Not the best but great. Not too original but is satisfying. Song at the ends along with Crudup is reason enough to watch.

An Expensive Lifetime Movie.......2007-04-07

This movie pushes the Lifetime genre in two small ways -- they paid more for the actors and there is some sympathy for the male lead. I confess that the actors tried to make something of the script, but you cannot make a masterpiece of a paint-by-numbers set. Otherwise, this overwrought windbag of a movie is just as void of depth and long on emotional dialogue as any LMN fare.

Some movies just don't make you care........2007-04-04

I cannot understand why this movie has so many positive reviews. My partner and I bought this for a discounted price mostly because we love Jennifer C. But on watching this.....there were times where I burst out laughing so hard at the movie that we had to pause it! And not because it was funny.....because I just wish the guys at MST3K could get a hold of it. Horrible acting, boring and odd dialogue and a very boring story line. It felt like an overdrawn episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" but without the cool music.

LOVE AFTER DEATH.......2007-03-27

WAKING THE DEAD is one of those movies that even though its competently done with very good production values, I just didn't find it entertaining. It's a rather somber love story well acted by Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
Set in the early 1970s and the early 1980s, the story follows Crudup, an up and coming brilliant law student who wants to be president someday. Connelly is the girl he falls for, and she's a radical who takes on all kinds of causes, ultimately ending in her tragic death...or is she really dead?
In the 80s, Crudup starts seeing Connelly and thinks she might be losing his mind, which wouldn't serve his goals as a candidate for Congress.
The movie is long on dialogue and director Keith Gordon gives us some pretty visual images and elicits good performances from the cast.
But the real situation with Connelly's fate is romanticized and ultimately left for us to decide the truth.
Romantics will probably enjoy this a little more than I did.

Average customer rating:

look beyond the obvious
Awaken....
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Waking the Dead
Starring: Billy Crudup , Jennifer Connelly , Molly Parker , Janet McTeer , and Paul Hipp
Director: Keith Gordon
Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
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Customer Reviews:

look beyond the obvious.......2007-05-13

Awaken...........2007-05-13

An Expensive Lifetime Movie.......2007-04-07

Some movies just don't make you care........2007-04-04

LOVE AFTER DEATH.......2007-03-27

Average customer rating:

look beyond the obvious
Awaken....
An Expensive Lifetime Movie
Some movies just don't make you care.
LOVE AFTER DEATH

Waking the Dead [Region 2]
Starring: Billy Crudup , Jennifer Connelly , Molly Parker , Janet McTeer , and Paul Hipp
Director: Keith Gordon
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Customer Reviews:

look beyond the obvious.......2007-05-13

Awaken...........2007-05-13

An Expensive Lifetime Movie.......2007-04-07

Some movies just don't make you care........2007-04-04

LOVE AFTER DEATH.......2007-03-27

Charlie Rose with Ephraim Sneh; Billy Crudup (March 28, 2000)

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