(rated PG-13, 90 mins.)
The movie opens. It’s raining, it’s Venezuela and it’s a bad mudslide. Dr. Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson, TV’s ‘Once and Again’) is screaming in desperation on the phone to her husband Dr. Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner), and then it ends. She’s dead. Not knowing the loved one’s last moments prior to a tragic death haunts the living (Costner) forever. His work as an E.R. surgeon is affected too. His neighbor (Kathy Bates) sees the changes and he’s getting worse. Especially when the emotional changes are affecting his oath as a physician in wake of his personal loss. But when the loved one is your soulmate; she’s the heart and you’re the mind, can one have contact in the hereafter? After a series of flops Costner takes on a moving, grief-stricken and real role that is this century’s “Ghost”. This will be a love or hate movie. If you’ve had experiences with incredible loss you’ll empathize with Costner’s pain and then revelation, if you haven’t, you may not get it and well, we can only feel sorry for you.
The movie opens. It’s raining, it’s Venezuela and it’s a bad mudslide. Dr. Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson, TV’s ‘Once and Again’) is screaming in desperation on the phone to her husband Dr. Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner), and then it ends. She’s dead. Not knowing the loved one’s last moments prior to a tragic death haunts the living (Costner) forever. His work as an E.R. surgeon is affected too. His neighbor (Kathy Bates) sees the changes and he’s getting worse. Especially when the emotional changes are affecting his oath as a physician in wake of his personal loss. But when the loved one is your soulmate; she’s the heart and you’re the mind, can one have contact in the hereafter? After a series of flops Costner takes on a moving, grief-stricken and real role that is this century’s “Ghost”. This will be a love or hate movie. If you’ve had experiences with incredible loss you’ll empathize with Costner’s pain and then revelation, if you haven’t, you may not get it and well, we can only feel sorry for you.