Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
Directed by Anthony Minghella
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
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It’s right up there with “Truly Madly Deeply,” in which Alan Rickman returns from the dead to hang with his ex (Juliet Stevenson), only to realize his presence makes things worse.
It’s about love’s link to the afterlife, more Tibetan Book of the Dead than its warm and fuzzy big screen interpretations “Ghost” or “Truly, Madly Deeply.”
Just when you're beginning to wish you were watching "Truly, Madly, Deeply" instead, a motley group of posers takes over, bristling with piercings and pontifications.
Like Truly Madly Deeply and Ghost , it posits what happens when one-half of a couple has shuffled off this mortal coil.
Of all the film's classic predecessors, "Ghost Town" suffers most when balanced against Anthony Minghella's lovely debut film, "Truly, Madly, Deeply," which elicited deep, naked tremors of feeling from the setup of a woman letting go of her dead husband.
…director Audrey Wells ( Disney's The Kid , George of the Jungle ) from Frances Mayes memoir, reminded me, surprisingly, of Truly Madly Deeply -- it's not so devastating as Anthony Minghella's ghost story, of course, but it follows a similar trail from loss to recovery to redemption, and exudes a similar exhilaration about the rediscovery of life along the way.
The list of actors with voluminous credentials includes Richard Harris, as Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts; Zoe Wanamaker as Madame Hooch, the Quidditch coach and flying instructor; comedian John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick; the marvelous Robbie Coltrane as Hogwarts' lovable, bumbling giant and groundskeeper, Rubeus Hagrid; John Hurt ("The Elephant Man") as the wand seller, Mr. Ollivander; Dame Maggie Smith, an Oscar winner for her role as a teacher at a Scottish girls' school in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," as Professor Minerva McGonagall; and Alan Rickman ("Truly, Madly, Deeply"), who appears as the creepy professor of potions, Severus Snape.
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With his first work, "Truly, Madly, Deeply," a sort of thinking person�s "Ghost," he delicately traced the anguish of love between two lovers separated by death.
Anthony Minghella ("Truly, Madly, Deeply"/"Mr.
I haven't read Michael Ondaatje's novel, but I suspect it's better than this streamlined (if still long-winded) 1996 adaptation by writer-director Anthony Minghella (Truly Madly Deeply).
Adapted by director Anthony Minghella (who made the wrenchingly romantic "Truly Madly Deeply") from Michael Ondaatje's captivating novel set during the Second World War, the film deftly juggles multiple storylines and unravels several layers of each with the returning memories of a mysterious plane crash victim being nursed through his last days.
Readers of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning 1993 novel "The English Patient" might not expect the movie version to follow the lead of "Casablanca," "The Bridges of Madison County" or even "Sleepless in Seattle," but you can see why director-screenwriter Anthony Minghella ("Truly, Madly, Deeply") would make such a choice.
Minghella (whose "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and "Mr.