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Truly Madly Deeply (PG)

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BY: Total Film Mar 1st 2002 FILED UNDER: DVD

Director Anthony Minghella's debut sees Juliet Stevenson play Nina, a woman unable to accept the death of her lover Jamie (Alan Rickman). In therapy, Nina tells how she's constantly aware of Jamie's presence, until one day his spirit returns to live with her in secret. Then Nina falls for another man and must make a choice between her past and a new future...

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Trailer.With scant explanation of why Jamie returns from the dead (he just "didn't die properly"), the film requires a forced suspension of disbelief. Even so, it's a moving meditation on the nature of loss, good enough to get past the fact it ripped-off Ghost. The extra-free disc itself, however, deserves no such forgiveness. Post-The English Patient, Minghella's view on his debut would have been fascinating.

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