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It is 1972. Young Coast Guard officer Fielding Pierce is passionately drawn to Sarah Williams, an idealistic activist. She becomes his great love, and he becomes hers: "We will never be apart," Sarah writes him, in a letter. But, in 1974, fate brutally intervenes when Sarah is murdered in a car-bombing. By 1982, Pierce, now a successful county D.A in Chicago, lives well with his socialite... See Full Description
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Drama, Romance, Thriller and Adaptation |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 43 min. |
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| Release Date: |
March 24, 2000 Limited; January 20, 2000 Sundance '00 |
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R for sexuality and language. |
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| Distributors: |
Gramercy Pictures, USA Films
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$327,418 |
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| Critics Reviews |
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N/A
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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." Full Review...
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E! Online,
(grade: D) "Tried to wake it, really, but the darn thing just lay there like a corpse." Full Review...
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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. " Full Review...
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goodauthority: Burden of Dreams,
"You may not realize it, but you know who Keith Gordon is." Full Review...
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