Plot
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 5.8/10 (18,384 voted)
Critic's Score: 25/100
Director:
Tom Shadyac
Stars: Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson, Joe Morton
Storyline Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Writers: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
Cast: Kevin Costner
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Joe Darrow
Susanna Thompson
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Emily Darrow
Joe Morton
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Hugh Campbell
Ron Rifkin
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Charlie Dickinson
Kathy Bates
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Mrs. Belmont
Robert Bailey Jr.
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Jeffrey Reardon
Jacob Smith
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Ben
Jay Thomas
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Hal
Lisa Banes
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Flora
Matt Craven
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Eric
Casey Biggs
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Neil Darrow
Leslie Hope
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Charisse Darrow
Peter Hansen
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Phillip Darrow
Mary Beth Fisher
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Eulogist
Kim Staunton
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Intake Nurse
Taglines:
When someone you love dies... are they gone forever?
Opening Weekend: $10,216,025
(USA)
(24 February 2002)
(2507 Screens)
Gross: $30,063,805
(USA)
(7 April 2002)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The character Joe Darrow was written with the intention of Harrison Ford taking the part. Ford turned down the role to take a year off from movies.
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible:
As Darrow is opening the door to the kitchen, after the scene with the swinging ceiling light, a woman wearing a white long sleeve V neck blouse is visible, standing in the hall behind him.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Emily Darrow:
[over the phone]
It's bad, Joe. They're evacuating the villages. We're about to be washed out. We're hearing gunfire now. Joe Darrow:
Can you... can you get to Calamar? Can you get across the border to Columbia? Emily Darrow:
They're putting us on the bus. I don't know where they're taking us. Joe? Joe? Joe Darrow:
Emily!
User Review
Great
Rating: 9/10
Call me an soppy silly man, but I loved this movie. I loved every
sentimental sugar-coated silly second of it. I don't believe in life after
death and I think near death experiences are hallucinations, but this
movie
grabbed hold of me and didn't let go. I was genuinely surprised and
touched
by the ending. Great movie.
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