
Mike Church (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing people. He takes on the case of a mute woman named Grace (Dame Emma Thompson), who is suffering from a total amnesia and doesn't even know her name. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist named Margaret Strauss (Dame Emma Thompson) by her husband, Roman (Sir Kenneth Branagh), in 1949. In an attempt to solve the mystery about her identity and her night... (Full plot summary below)
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Mike Church (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing people. He takes on the case of a mute woman named Grace (Dame Emma Thompson), who is suffering from a total amnesia and doesn't even know her name. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist named Margaret Strauss (Dame Emma Thompson) by her husband, Roman (Sir Kenneth Branagh), in 1949. In an attempt to solve the mystery about her identity and her nightmares, Mike accepts the help of antiquary Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), who arrives to offer his services as a hypnotist. The hypnosis sessions soon begin to reveal some surprises.
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| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressDead Again was a fresh breath of air into the genre by exorcising the elements of a bygone era into a resurrection of how entertaining a great mystery can be. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDead Again does not come across as a Hitchcock knock-off, but as a motion picture that incorporates familiar themes and approaches while maintaining its own integrity and identity. Not once during the entire production is there an obviously stolen scene or camera angle replication. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeA film that is filled to the brim with energy, bravaura, and unbridled passion, a film that speaks only in broad strokes and leaves one feeling completely satisfied by its wild conclusion. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyOverwrought and overly facile look at accounts payable in the afterlife. |
| MovielineStephen FarberDirectorial style triumphs over a nonsensical script (by Scott Frank). |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannWith its stylized black-and-white sequences and fast-paced melodramatic plot, this homage to film noir is both intense and purposely self-conscious. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf "Henry V," the first film [Branaugh] directed and starred in, caused people to compare him to Olivier, "Dead Again" will inspire comparisons to Welles and Hitchcock - and the Olivier of Hitchcock's "Rebecca." |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranEngaging film style is buoyed by an infectious sense of fun and punctuated by wild and woolly character turns. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie isn't just unpretentious; it's garishly, thrillingly vulgar. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksSuffice it to say that if Dead Again is not a great film, it's certainly one wildly entertaining ride. |