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Waking the Dead is a 2000 mystery drama film directed by Keith Gordon and starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly. The screenplay by Robert Dillon is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Scott Spencer.
Waking the Dead: Directed by Keith Gordon. With Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll. A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Keith Gordon
- 2000-03-24
Mar 24, 2000 · The film begins in 1982, when a young politician named Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) learns on the news that his friend Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) has been killed by a car bomb attack in Minneapolis. She was working with a group of political activists opposed to U.S. actions in Chile.
Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) has long been on the road to political candidacy. After the Coast Guard, he enrolls in law school and meets firebrand activist Sarah Williams (Jennifer...
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- Keith Gordon
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- Billy Crudup
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A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge. Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he's serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school.
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Young Coast Guard officer Fielding Pierce is passionately drawn to Sarah Williams, an idealistic activist. She becomes his great love, and he becomes hers: "We will never be apart," Sarah writes him, in a letter. But, in 1974, fate brutally intervenes when Sarah is murdered in a car-bombing.
