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Holistic Guidance - Truly Madly Deeply
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List Price: $9.99
Our Price: $11.00
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Jenny Howe, Carolyn Choa, Bill Paterson, Christopher Rozycki
Directed By: Anthony Minghella
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302409772
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302409772
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Release Date: 1994-04-21
Running Time: 107
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-05-24
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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? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next. --Grant Balfour
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Summary: Truly Madly Deeply Wonderful
Comment: This film is amazing. I have never had a film pull at the heart strings the way that this film did, and I am not a person to be made emotional with a film easily. The acting was wonderful, and Alan Rickman, as always, was stellar. I had a slightly different take of this film than a few of the reviews that I read. *Warning! Spoilers* The way that I took Jamie's fussiness and moments of agitation to Nina (Stevenson's character), was that he was trying to make her remember that he wasn't perfect. In the beginning of the movie, she is remembering all of his wonderful qualities. This is evident in that when he first returned, he was the Jamie that she had been missing, but then his quirks began to emerge. Again, I did not take these to be flaws in Jamie's character, but rather that he was "over emphasizing" the things he used to do that drove her crazy. He had returned to help her heal, and she would never do that as long as she was holding on to a sanctified version of him. The whole motive of his actions were centered around getting her to the point that she must say out loud, literally, that she "would go on living." And he gets her to that point...poetically. Its beautiful. I have to say the most heart wrenching scene for me was when Jamie was standing in the window of the flat watching her leave. The film wasn't just about her saying goodbye, but it was a goodbye for him as well - for he had to let her go too, so that she could live.
This film will touch on all the emotions in the human spectrum. You will laugh, and cry, or in my case, weep. It will certainly leave you thinking about it long after the credits have rolled. Its one of the most touching films I have ever seen. I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys British films, and British humor. I loved this movie because the characters were so real. There isn't a drop of Hollywood drivel here, which I find to be refreshing. This film is wonderful. I can't say it enough. Truly!
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Summary: Thank You, David Minghella
Comment: Many other reviewers have already said most of what needs to be said about this film. With the recent, too-early death of the film's screenwriter and director, Anthony Minghella, I would only like to add a brief homage. In this film, Minghella taught us about the power of love, the courage of letting go and moving on, and the abiding comfort we obtain through our memories. This is one of the finest movies I have ever seen, and I salute Mr. Minghella's creative genius. We have lost a great artist.
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Summary: Slow start, good middle, great ending
Comment: Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RIVYLFYU2535Q This movie almost lost my interest in the first quarter, then became good, and then ended perfectly.
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Summary: Truly Madly Deeply in Love with this film
Comment: There are So many romantic comedies made, why can't they be as creative, as touching, realistic and human as this one. The gist of the story you may know, Nina the main character is incredibly heartbroken after the death of her beloved Jamie. She finds her life difficult to manage and her grief is palpable. One day without her knowledge Jamie returns as a ghost. At first she is overwhelmed and happy, and becomes slightly withdrawn from the world. Nina feels now that she can continue on, she slowly begins to interact and meet new people. All the while Jamie lives at her flat and invites the occassional ghost friend over for video watching. Nina is still in love with Jamie, yet as time goes on she starts to remember all of his undesireable qualities she forgot in her revisionist romanticism. She is torn between life and death, she eventually chooses life and Jamie learns what he must do (to descibe anymore would be a SPOILER)
Really heartbreaking material which is done so beautifully, the actors involved are amazing. Juliet Stevenson is the gem of this film.
"Death cannot stop true love it can only delay it a while" -Wesley-"Princess Bride"
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Summary: Magnificent
Comment: Prepare your emotions for this movie. You will laugh (from chuckles to guffaws); you will cry (from catches-in-the-throat to sobs). You will remember this movie--particularly when grieving--since, here, grief loses.
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