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| After.Life | |
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| Directed by | Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Vosloo |
| Written by | Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo Paul Vosloo Jakub Korolczuk |
| Produced by | Bill Perkins Brad Michael Gilbert Celine Rattray |
| Starring | Christina Ricci Liam Neeson Justin Long |
| Cinematography | Anastas N. Michos |
| Edited by | Niven Howie |
| Music by | Paul Haslinger |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
| Box office | $3,260,454 |
After.Life is a 2009 American suspense film starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long,[1] directed by Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Vosloo from her original screenplay.[2]
Plot
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Middle school teacher Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) attends a funeral of a colleague and it is there she encounters the solemn owner of the funeral home, Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson). That night at a restaurant Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long), leaves in a panic, and gets in a traffic accident. She awakens in a morgue dazed, confused and numb finding the morgue director, Eliot, cleaning her head wound, stitching it up and telling her she has died. He tells Anna he has a gift to assist the dead in crossing over to help them accept their deaths. Later in the funeral home it is revealed Eliot talks to the dead, and has a collection of photographs of corpses, it is implied he helped each of the dead to cross over. Eliot injects Anna regularly with a chemical to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in."
Anna attempts to escape several times but is unsuccessful; Eliot tells her, she must let go of life as she had not really been living anyway. Eventually, Anna steals Eliot's keys, escapes, and finds a room with a phone intent on calling Paul for help. She reaches Paul, but he is unable to hear her and hangs up thinking it's a prank. Anna comes to believe she actually died when Eliot allows her to look in a mirror and she sees herself looking corpse-like. She does not notice her breath leaves a fog on the mirror and Eliot quickly wipes away the evidence. Outside, one of Anna's students, Jack, sees her and relays the information to Paul, who becomes suspicious that she is still alive.
During the final preparation for the funeral, Anna asks Eliot if she can see herself one last time in the mirror. Eliot holds up a small mirror, but while she stares at herself she exhales and notices her breath condensing on the glass. Suddenly, concerned Eliot has been lying to her, Anna begins to believe she has been alive all along. Eliot injects her one last time with chemicals to make her numb. At the funeral, as Paul views Anna's body, she twitches her eyes but is unable to get his attention . Paul then places the engagement ring he intended to give her the night of the crash on her finger and comments, "She's cold," then kisses her.
After the funeral, Paul drinks heavily telling Eliot he knew Anna was not dead. Anna is shown awakening to the sound of earth being shoveled onto her coffin. She cries out as she struggles against death desperately scratching the satin lining of her coffin lid until her fingers bleed. As she slowly dies of suffocation, Eliot suggests Paul should go to the cemetery and find out whether Anna is actually dead or not before it is too late. Driving fast and under the influence of alcohol Paul rushes to the cemetery. There is an ambiguous cut before he is shown digging up Anna's grave finding her alive. The two embrace and Anna tells Paul she has always loved him. As they hug, Paul is curious about some unusual sounds he hears; Anna explains it is the sound of Eliot's gloves and scissors on the table as he prepares Paul's body. Paul sees Anna literally disappearing from his embrace then sees the bright flash of headlights by the cemetery. A moment later, he finds himself in the morgue with Eliot standing over him preparing his body. Paul says he saw Anna, but Eliot tells him that he never made it to the cemetery due to a car accident which killed him. Paul claims vehemently that he is not dead, that he is alive, until the moment Eliot inserts a trocar deep into his torso.
Cast
- Christina Ricci as Anna Taylor
- Liam Neeson as Eliot Deacon
- Justin Long as Paul Coleman
- Celia Weston as Beatrice Taylor
- Chandler Canterbury as Jack
- Rosemary Murphy as Mrs Whitehall
Production
After.Life completed filming in New York at the end of December 2008 with Bill Perkins and Celine Rattray as producers.[3] Galt Niederhoffer and Pam Hirsch are executive producing for Plum Pictures with Edwin Marshall and James Swisher executive producing for Harbor Light.[4] Scenes were filmed in Lynbrook, New York in early December 2008.[5]
Release
After.Life premiered at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles on November 7, 2009.[6] Anchor Bay Entertainment, a division of Overture Films, has acquired theatrical rights for the U.S. and the U.K.[7] The film received an R-rating for the multiple nude scenes with Christina Ricci and was released on 9 April 2010 in a limited release.[8] Anchor Bay released the DVD and Blu-ray on 3 August 2010.[9]
Reception
Critical reception
After.Life has received negative reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 29% of 49 critics have given the film a positive review, holding an average score of 4.6/10.[10] According to the website, the film's critical consensus is, "It has an interesting premise and admirable ambitions, but After.Life fails to deliver enough twists or thrills to sustain its creepy atmosphere." Review aggregate Metacritic has given the film a weighted score of 36/100, based on 21 reviews, indicating "Generally unfavorable reviews".[11]
References
- ^ "After.Life: overview". Allmovie. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
- ^ McNary, Dave (2008-10-16). "Ricci, Neeson believe in After.Life". Variety.
- ^ "Full cast and crew for After.Life". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
- ^ MrDisgusting (3). "'After.Life' Trailer Fails to Focus on Main Selling Point — a Nude Christina Ricci". BLOODY DISGUSTING. BLOODY DISGUSTING LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ MrDisgusting (9). "AFM '09: Ricci, Neeson in New 'After.Life' One Sheet". BLOODY DISGUSTING. BLOODY DISGUSTING LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ MrDisgusting (27). "UPDATE: Anchor Bay Acquires 'After.Life', a New Thriller Starring a Nude Christina Ricci!". BLOODY DISGUSTING. BLOODY DISGUSTING LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Uncle Creepy (27). "Anchor Bay Sails into the After.Life". Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Uncle Creepy (27). "Anchor Bay Sets a Date With the After.Life". Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Mr. Dark (9). "Review After.Life (2010)". Dread Central Media. Dread Central Media, LLC. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "After.Life Movie reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "After.Life". Metacritic. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
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