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Dead Again (1991)

R 08/23/1991 (US) Mystery, Drama, Crime 1h 47m

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How many times can you die for love?

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In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

Kenneth Branagh

Director
Scott Frank

Writer

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Kenneth Branagh

Roman Strauss / Mike Church
Emma Thompson

Margaret Strauss / Grace
Derek Jacobi

Franklyn Madson
Andy García

Gray Baker
Wayne Knight

Pete Dugan
Robin Williams

Cozy Carlisle
Richard Easton

Father Timothy
Jo Anderson

Sister Madeleine / Starlet
Hanna Schygulla

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Kenneth Branagh's first film, HENRY V, was a critical triumph. But since it was a Shakespeare story, it is overlooked as high-brow. With DEAD AGAIN as his sophomore directorial effort, Branagh has a film for the popcorn crowd. If HENRY V was tonally like a Laurence Olivier film, DEAD AGAIN is tonally like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Filmed in 2 eras, in both color and black and white, with characters portraying multiple characters, a private eye, reincarnation, a fortune teller even a femme fatale suffering from amnesia! Obviously DEAD AGAIN is a suspense thriller of... read the rest.

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