Truly Madly Deeply
Director: Anthony Minghella
Year Released: 1991
Rating: 1.0
Mushy sentimental fluff about bilingual woman whose husband dies and she has to move on with her life. Naturally, it's hard, and in the first act she does nothing but cry and mope on the couch, at work, at her shrink's loft. In the second, act however, he magically appears in her home/head, and she is delightfully startled by his return (the dead husband is played by Alan Rickman, always reliable, always talented). But his presence proves a problem, as she needs to live life on Earth instead of with her husband/spectre and his call-sign cello-playing (along with the also dead pasty-faced friends he brings with him, who argue over what videos to watch ... Five Easy Pieces versus Fitzcarraldo?). Eventually, she finds a new guy ... who works with mentally retarded folk (what a sweetheart!). Lots of hankies and crying and meaningless subplots come and go; all the while I'm praying for it to end. Douglas Sirk called: he wants his style back.
