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Waking the Dead (2000)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   N/A Source Brief Review culturevulture.net "Keith Gordon's 'Waking the Dead' is like a dorm room bull session, an all-night round of self-righteousness and moralizing, shrilly earnest pontification and wild-eyed statements of purpose." more... E! Online (grade: D) "Tried to wake it, really, but the darn thing just lay there like a corpse." more... Flick Filosopher ""Co-produced, directed, and adapted (without credit) by Keith Gordon, 'Waking the Dead' is all about the scrambling of fantasy and fact, the ways that individual perspective shapes truth. " more... goodauthority: Burden of Dreams "You may not realize it, but you know who Keith Gordon is." more... indieWIRE: Alive with Love and Loss "...the performances elevate 'Waking the Dead' above most of my quibbles." more... James Berardinelli (1.5 out of 4 stars) "Sadly, sitting through 'Waking the Dead' wasted two hours that could have been spent seeing something else, sleeping, or inserting needles under my fingernails." more... PopMatters "Co-produced, directed, and adapted (without credit) by Keith Gordon, Waking the Dead is all about the scrambling of fantasy and fact, the ways that individual perspective shapes truth. " more... Reel.com "Director Keith Gordon...once again chooses to adapt a novel, and does a marvelous job of creating and sustaining a tone of romantic longing." more... Roger Ebert (2.5 stars) "...has a good heart and some fine performances, but is too muddled at the story level to involve us emotionally." more... Spliced Online: Grave Romance "An eerie, enigmatic, intellectual romantic tragedy about a rising politician haunted by memories of his murdered love, 'Waking the Dead' touches a raw nerve with its remarkably visceral emotional intensity." more... Variety "...primarily handicapped by lightweight leads in heavyweight, if sketchily developed, roles. But credibility is also weakened by a simplistic screenplay, as well as budget limitations that undermine depiction of a public political life and two period settings." more... Search the Movie Review Query Engine more... * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)