Waking the Dead with Billy Crudup: DVD Cover

    Waking the Dead Director: Keith Gordon Cast: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer

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    • DVD Release Date: 11/05/2002
    • Original Release: 2000
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 11,456

    Viewer Rating: (2 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; Widescreen image enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs; English 5.1 and English 2.0 soundtracks; English closed captions; Spanish subtitles; Deleted scenes; Director's commentary; Theatrical trailer; Featurette; Cast and filmmaker's biographies/filmographies

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits [1:58]
    2. Sudden Terror [1:35]
    3. Mornin' Private [4:00]
    4. Topic of Conversation [7:55]
    5. Offer of a Lifetime [3:27]
    6. ...and so it Begins [2:17]
    7. Love Letters [3:20]
    8. The Campaign Challenge [3:09]
    9. Heart to Heart [4:56]
    10. Going to Chicago [4:56]
    11. 1983 - The Campaign Trail [2:00]
    12. 1973 - Contrasts [10:23]
    13. Two Weeks in Chile [2:19]
    14. Sightings and Sanctuary [:41]
    15. Breaking Bread [6:32]
    16. Final Journey [2:58]
    17. Work Harder [5:52]
    18. Contact [5:07]
    19. Searching for Answers [3:49]
    20. Victory Speech? [4:00]
    21. Apologies [7:00]
    22. Keep Fighting [8:10]
    23. Closing Credits [3:43]

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    Eschewing the predictable formulas from which most screen romances are concocted, Waking the Dead presents a complex, sophisticated, and highly intriguing love story. In his adaptation of Scott Spencer's critically acclaimed novel, writer-director Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War) maintains the book's multilayered narrative structure and fractured chronology, challenging the viewer to keep up with dizzying changes in time and place. Billy Crudup portrays an erstwhile politician and lifelong adherent to the status quo, determined to work within the system but madly in love with a beautiful, passionate activist played by Jennifer Connelly, who's fervently committed to effecting change from without. Her apparent death in a car bombing sends the stiff-backed politico into a tailspin. But is she really dead? Has she returned to rescue him from his soul-numbing ways? Emotionally demanding and quietly compelling, Waking the Dead will stimulate viewers with its unique perspective. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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    January 27, 2003: ...because of what he pulls off with this film. The tragic nobility with which Crudup injects Fielding in each scene leaves the viewer breathless at the climax of Fielding's tightrope dance with destiny and delirium. Keith Gordon seems to draw a lovely unaffected tenderness from Crudup and Connelly in this film. But for a rather hackneyed finale, this film would have evaded no critic's top ten list.