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Summary: Truly Madly Deeply Love this Movie!
Review: I saw "Truly Madly Deeply" at a small, art house cinema over a decade ago.I remember that I really loved this film and now after recently seeing it again on DVD, I am reminded why. It is a film that brings about very strong emotions of how we feel about the special people in our lives. This is the story of women name Nina who has lost her husband, Jamie.The grief that she experiences is so profound, that she just can't get over the loss.Jamie eventally starts reappearing to Nina as a ghost (along with some very funny, video loving, ghostly friends).It is through these spectral visits, that Nina learns some very important lessons about living life. This is both a very funny but emotional story. My Favorite humorous scene is when one of Jamie's ghostly buddies, berates Nina for erasing a video tape of Wody Allen's "Manhattan".Apparently all these spirits are cinema buffs! It is not to often that we get to laugh and understand a character's pain all at the same time. Juliet Stevenson is just plainly brilliant as she has us experience her character's deep love for her late husband.Alan Rickman is very funny as a ghost, who is romantic but all too real, with his complaints and fussiness (he is constantly whining about the flat).This is one of those films, that after viewing, you want to find your love one, whether they are a spouse or child or any other special person in your life and hold them, just a bit tighter.
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Summary: a thinking person's "ghost" or "kiss me good-bye"
Review: long before anthony minghella made the english patient or the recent cold mountain, he blessed up with a little known but wonderful little gem called truly, madly, deeply. here you have a very touching, subtle film with romantic undertones & dialogue which ranks with some fo the best woody allen comedy/dramas we've seen such as "alice" or "hannah & her sisters". truly, madly , deply has often been referred to as the thinking person's "ghost" or "kiss me good-bye" although i'd say that's an understatement. it's hard to believe it's been over 12 years since i initially watched this & it still holds up mighty well. juliet stevenson plays a sweet, lonely widow who literally stays depressed after the loss of her husband & can't bring herself to move on with her own life or to possibly fall in love again. sensing her loneliness & sadness from the other side, her husband(played flawlessly by the ever great alan rickman) returns & even brings a few of his friends back with him. from this point on, the film takes a softer & more light-hearted view. who would've though ghosts from the other side would so darn cold though? throughout the course of the film, nina finds gentleman friend & falls in love. will she chose to live with her husband's ghost & his friends or will she choose the teacher? find out for yourself with this irresistible heartwarming, witty film today. if you are interested, then why are you still reading? go get the movie !!!
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Summary: Understated, intelligent, and thoughtful movie
Review: The Brits really have something over the Americans when it comes to subjects like this. Compare this movie with Ghost and you'll know what I'm talking about. It's nice to see something done with intelligence for a change--especially in the "romance" genre. It is refreshing to see actors who resemble REAL people, not some pre-fabricated, air-brushed, version of humanity that Hollywood *thinks* we want. Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson are terrific as usual, as is the entire cast. TMD made me sob in the theatre more than a decade ago. It was well worth it.
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Summary: Truly Madly Deeply unforgettable!
Review: Truly Madly Deeply is an amazing film, it's moving, it's humorous and it's romantic. It has everything you want in a film. Being an absolute Alan Rickman fan, I couldn't resist buying Truly Madly Deeply and I must say it's an instant classic.
Nina, a thirty something translator, fantastically played by Juliet Stevenson, loses the love of her life, Jamie, who was a cellist.
As her life and her flat falls apart, it seems she's on the edge of an emotional breakdown but while she plays a half-finished Bach duet on the piano, she turns around and Jamie's there, playing the cello.
It's bliss at first but then he starts rearranging the furniture, inviting his ghostly friends to her flat to watch old movies on video and Nina's passion turns into irritation.
The ending is so moving but I won't spoil it, I loved the acting, Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman are brilliant, it's a pity they aren't appreciated as well as they should be.
This movie isn't a British re-make of the US film "Ghost" but a touching story about a woman who learning to cope with grief and anger and carrying on with her life. We've all been there and it's something everyone can relate to.
If you like romantic movies without the Hollywood glamour, Truly Madly Deeply is highly recommended!
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Summary: Truly Madly Deeply Love this Movie!
Review: I saw "Truly Madly Deeply" at a small, art house cinema over a decade ago.I remember that I really loved this film and now after recently seeing it again on DVD, I am reminded why. It is a film that brings about very strong emotions of how we feel about the special people in our lives. This is the story of women name Nina who has lost her husband, Jamie.The grief that she experiences is so profound, that she just can't get over the loss.Jamie eventally starts reappearing to Nina as a ghost (along with some very funny, video loving, ghostly friends).It is through these spectral visits, that Nina learns some very important lessons about living life. This is both a very funny but emotional story. My Favorite humorous scene is when one of Jamie's ghostly buddies, berates Nina for erasing a video tape of Wody Allen's "Manhattan".Apparently all these spirits are cinema buffs! It is not to often that we get to laugh and understand a character's pain all at the same time. Juliet Stevenson is just plainly brilliant as she has us experience her character's deep love for her late husband.Alan Rickman is very funny as a ghost, who is romantic but all too real, with his complaints and fussiness (he is constantly whining about the flat).This is one of those films, that after viewing, you want to find your love one, whether they are a spouse or child or any other special person in your life and hold them, just a bit tighter.
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Summary: Weak Plot
Review: What happens when the husband of a widow comes back as a ghost and starts hanging around the house? In "Truly Madly Deeply" he sneezes because he is cold, invites dead friends over to watch movies, and repeatedly tells his wife he can ask them to leave. The movie begins with promise as Juliet Stephenson gives a very gripping emotional portrayal of a widow, Nina, grieving over her lost husband Jamie played by Alan Rickman. There is momentary intrigue as we wonder whether Nina is so grief stricken her imagination has run away or whether her Jamie has really come back as a ghost. The intrigue quickly fades. This movie fails to build up a single dramatic question, and quickly fizzles into a boring string of scenes where one can expect Jamie is going to leave to let Nina live her life. When Nina meets a special-education teacher and takes a romantic interest, Jamie quietly leaves and his conflict is weakly dramatized with a sad face looking out the window as he gets a pat on the shoulder from a dead friend.
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Summary: Truly, Madly for Alan
Review: In a movie categorized as a romance, there's little of it for Alan Rickman fans. He plays 'Jamie' the ghost of a lover from a grieving woman, 'Nina' (played by Juliet Stevenson). The title should have the word 'Sadly' in it, because her character is in every scene. Alan sings, using a cello as a guitar, which is the highlight of this bore of a movie, which spends too much time on men ranting about 'Nina', and the viewer is painstakingly put through scenes of Stevenson wildly dancing all over the set as though she needs to be tied down and heavily sedated. Alan won a BAFTA award, but truly could have found a better vehicle for his talent. Thank you for doing it anyway, Alan. And I don't care what anyone says, your moustached lips or shaven are welcome here.
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Summary: Truly, Madlyk, Deeply
Review: One of the finest films about grieving and death I have ever seen. Humorous as well as infinitely touching, this film examines the depths to which we can fall in not letting go of one we love. Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Michael Maloney all give absolutely riviting, beautiful performances. Alan Rickman, one of the finest actors of our generation, again proves himself master at subtle comic delivery and timing, as well as breaking our hearts. Juliet Stevenson gives a magnificent performance as a woman who cannot let go, and gets that second chance she has dreamed of; she reaches to places few actors dare to go. Michael Maloney is charming and moving as the man who dares to love Juliet despite herself. In the best of British tradition, this film moves slowly and quietly, creating characters we come to love, encompassing both pain and humor as it illustrates the need for each of us to accept and move on. Beautiful. You will not be disappointed. (PS: The cello scene is one of the most moving ever captured on film...you will know it when you see it!>)
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Summary: Not "the best film of the year" by a long shot
Review: I'm not sure why this movie is called a romantic comedy. It is not particularly romantic, nor is it particularly comical. It is 107 minutes of a movie that made me truly madly deeply passionately deliciously jucily want to kill something. The movie has its moments, I'll admit. The poem scene was wonderful, and the hop-on-one-foot-and-tell-me-your-life-story scene was good until it got too long. But there are just some things that should not make it into a movie called "the thinking person's Ghost." Insane musical numbers in bathrobes, for one example. Unresolved plot twists about the struggle of immigrants, for another (nothing is ever done about the employer who is mistreating his employees, unless turning a russian novel into a dove to break up a fight counts as a solution). I'm sorry to the people who love this movie, but I found it nonsensical. It was a wonderful idea, poorly executed. There is a difference between going back to everyday arguments and "why are you embarrassing me in front of all my dead friends who just want to take over your house and watch videos 24 hours a day?" And on the topic of Alan Rickman... I love Alan Rickman. He's the reason I watched the movie in the first place. But I don't think he was right for the role of Jamie. At all. Or at least the people responsible for hair and makeup wrecked the role for him. It was very difficult to accept him as a touching character while he looked totally untrustworthy and frightening. After watching this movie, I am left wondering why I did, and more, why anyone was willing to be a part of it in the first place. (incidentally, this review actually refers to the laser disk version of the movie)
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Summary: Truly a classic
Review: This film has leaped into the top five for my all-time favorites. Thank goodness, too, since there hasn't been much out there to cheer about for years. I wish it hadn't taken me a decade to discover this wonderful film. I won't go into a synopsis of the story, as many here have already done so admirably. Let it just be known that this is a delightful, wonderful, very English film. Those of you who love English films will know of what I speak. The English do not put their most glamorous actresses in their films, they don't get their actor's teeth fixed for the close-ups (Rickman's teeth are snaggly, but it doesn't take away from his charm and sexiness one whit), and they don't even dress everyone up in particularly attractive clothes. In other words, the real-ness of these characters adds to the charm of the film. Loved seeing Rickman and Stevenson sing together, and it was priceless when I showed that scene to my kids and they said, "Snape can sing!" Kudos to Rickman for learning the cello to play his parts without being dubbed. Doggone it, I think I just may take up the cello as well. This is one to own. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
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