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BOXOFHCE<br />
REVIEWS<br />
March 2000<br />
DAY AND DATE: MARCH 24<br />
WAKING THE DEAD<br />
***i/2<br />
Starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer<br />
Connelly. Directed and written by Keith<br />
Gordon. Produced by Keith Cordon,<br />
Stuart Kleinman and Linda Reisman. A<br />
USA release. Drama. Rated R for sexuality<br />
and language. Running time: 103<br />
Fielding, on the other hand, is serving in<br />
min.<br />
A romance film relies on the charisma<br />
the Coast Guard when they first meet,<br />
later going to law school in an effort to<br />
and chemistry of its leads to con-<br />
change the system from within. He's<br />
vince the audience that they do, indeed, willing to make sacrifices for the good of<br />
belong together—and<br />
will be<br />
cause. Neither<br />
the greater<br />
together even after<br />
retreats from his<br />
death parts them.<br />
or her position,<br />
In this, "Waking<br />
at times embarrassing<br />
the Dead" writerdirector-producer<br />
the other<br />
when circumstances<br />
Keith Gordon<br />
for an<br />
succeeds resoundingly.<br />
ideological<br />
eruption are less<br />
Beginning<br />
with a car bombing<br />
than<br />
But<br />
optimal.<br />
it's their<br />
convictions that<br />
that kills<br />
Sarah<br />
inspire<br />
activist<br />
their<br />
Williams ("Dark<br />
love and respect<br />
City's" Jennifer<br />
for each other.<br />
Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly<br />
Connelly),<br />
in USA's "Waking the Dead."<br />
Told from<br />
"Waking the<br />
Fielding's point<br />
Dead" moves back and forth in time (on<br />
occasion less fluidly than others)<br />
of view, the film is carried<br />
who not just portrays but<br />
by Crudup,<br />
inhabits a<br />
between the early 1970s, when she character who runs the gamut of<br />
meets and falls in love with politically extreme emotion from the cool collection<br />
candidate to the des-<br />
inclined Fielding Pierce ("Jesus' Son's"<br />
of a political<br />
Billy Crudup), and the '80s, after Sarah's<br />
death, when Fielding is offered a chance<br />
to run for the Senate. With his chiseled<br />
good looks and polished background,<br />
he's a shoo-in—until his beloved begins<br />
to haunt him and he suspects that either<br />
she really is alive or he's losing his mind.<br />
The film's best moments are set in the<br />
past as the two discover young love<br />
despite their differences. Sarah is an<br />
uncompromising revolutionary, going so<br />
far as to travel to South America to help<br />
oppressed Chilean radicals escape.<br />
peration of trying to protect his determined<br />
lover to the uncontrollable insanity<br />
broiling just beneath the surface.<br />
Gordon mirrors these emotions in his<br />
filmmaking, using slow-motion, handheld<br />
camerawork and elaborate pauses<br />
to reflect the emotional resonance of a<br />
particular scene. Annlee Ellingson<br />
•••*• OUTSTANDING<br />
**•• VERY GOOD<br />
••• GOOD<br />
•• FAIR<br />
* POOR<br />
(no stars) BOMB<br />
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