Word: minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella; starring Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt, Matt Dillon and Mary Louise Parker; Warner Brothers; rated...
...remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. In the '50s, Topper and the Kerbys explored the hereafter on TV. More recently, Field of Dreams cloaked the metaphysical in a baseball motif. In fact, the netherworld as a dramatic device is as old as theater. Anthony Minghella, writer and director of Truly, Madly, Deeply, a British variation of carpe diem, hails the technique as an inventive way to deal with loss and pain: "However dark these stories, they become an affirmation of life...