Hereafter [Blu-ray]

Director: Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic, Richard Kind, Lyndsey Marshal, Ccile De France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, C?cile de France

Overview

Director Clint Eastwood delves into the mysterious world of the hereafter with this ensemble supernatural drama starring Matt Damon, C?cile De France, Jay Mohr, and Bryce Dallas Howard. In the wake of a near-death experience during a powerful tsunami, French television reporter Marie (De France) takes her married lover's advice to pen the political book she has always talked about writing. As hard as Marie tries to stay focused on the task at hand, however, she repeatedly finds her attention diverted to scientists who have been stigmatized for investigating the afterlife. Meanwhile, in America, reluctant psychic George (Matt Damon) struggles in vain to cease using his powers for profit while falling for a gorgeous stranger (Bryce Dallas Howard). All the while, his greedy brother (Jay Mohr) prods him to milk his ability for all it's worth. Over in London, a pair of inseparable twins is forcibly parted by tragedy when one of them dies suddenly. The harder the more introverted surviving twin (Frankie McLaren) attempts to reach out to his deceased brother in the afterlife, the deeper his mom sinks into heroin addiction. When his mother goes into rehab, the grieving boy is placed in foster care, and begins succumbing to his corrosive ennui.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/15/2011
UPC:	0883929140862
Original Release:	2010
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:09:00
Sales rank:	32,933

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matt Damon	George Lonegan
C?cile de France	Marie Lelay
Bryce Dallas Howard	Melanie
Jay Mohr	Billy
Richard Kind	Christos
Frankie McLaren	Marcus/Jason,Marcus/Jason
Lyndsey Marshal	Jackie
Derek Jacobi	Himself
Marthe Keller	Dr. Rousseau
Jenifer Lewis	Candace
Andy Gathergood	Jackie's Friend
Helen Elizabeth	Jackie's Friend
Thierry Neuvic	Didier
Joe Bellan	Tony
Sean Buckley	Dr. Meredith
Paul Antony-Barber	Nigel
Jack Bence	Ricky
Cyndi Mayo Davis	Island Hotel clerk
Lisa Griffiths	Stall Owner,Island Girl
Ferguson Reid	Rescuer
Derek Sakakura	Rescuer
Charlie Creed-Miles	Photographer
Rebekah Staton	Social Worker
Declan Conlon	Social Worker
Marcus Boyea	Teenager
Franz Drameh	Teenager
Tex Jacks	Teenager
Taylor Doherty	Teenager
Laurent Bateau	TV Producer
Calum Grant	Factory Worker
Steven R. Schirripa	Cooking Teacher Carlo
Tom Beard	Priest
Jean-Yves Berteloot	Publishing Executive Michael
Niamh Cusack	Foster Mother
George Costigan	Foster Father
Claire Price	Marcus' Teacher,Man
Surinder Duhra	Islamic Teacher
Audrey Brisson	Hospice Receptionist
Jess Murphy	Dying Woman
Michael Cuckson	Hospice Husband
Jennifer Thorne	Hospice Mother
Barry Martin	Hospice Father
Charlie Holliday	Union Rep
John Nielsen	Factory Supervisor
Anthony Allgood	Visitor
Mathew Baynton	College Receptionist
Pearce Quigley	Channeler
Meg Wynn Owen	Mirror Lady
Selina Cadell	Mrs. Joyce
Celine Sallette	Secretary
Celia Shuman	Neighbor
Joanna Croll	Tour Guide
Tim Fitzhigham	Bearded Author
Chloe Bale	Hotel Receptionist
Myl?ne Jampano?	Jasmine
St?phane Freiss	Guillaume Belcher
Drama	Actor
Gennady Loktionov	Conductor
Cecile De France	Actor
Clint Eastwood	Composer

Technical Credits

Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Kathleen Kennedy	Producer
Robert Lorenz	Producer
Clint Eastwood	Producer
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer,Producer
Frank Marshall	Executive Producer
Tim Moore	Executive Producer,Producer
Fiona Weir	Casting
John Bernard	Producer
Bub Asman	Sound Effects
William Cawley	Sound Effects
Walt Martin	Sound Mixer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Hereafter
1. Scene 1 [9:16]
2. Scene 2 [9:19]
3. Scene 3 [9:46]
4. Scene 4 [10:14]
5. Scene 5 [9:59]
6. Scene 6 [8:52]
7. Scene 7 [:50]
8. Scene 8 [10:55]
9. Scene 9 [10:16]
10. Scene 10 [10:00]
11. Scene 11 [9:44]
12. Scene 12 [9:59]
13. Scene 13 [10:12]
14. Scene 14 [2:57]

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Editorial Reviews

For all his reputation as a gritty, rough-and-tumble man's man, Clint Eastwood has shown a consistent tastefulness in his directorial career. He rarely gets drawn into operatic emotional highs, and this quality suits him well with Hereafter, a gentle movie very much about overpowering feelings of love and loss and fear. The movie opens with an exhilarating and terrifying sequence involving a tsunami that tears through a resort town; caught in the disaster is French investigative reporter and television personality Marie (Cécile De France), whose near-death experience affords her a glimpse of the afterlife. After this throat-grabber of an opening, Eastwood shifts to a struggling British family where twin boys attempt to hide their single mother's drug addiction from the social service workers who want to place the two in foster care. After tragedy strikes one of the boys, the movie switches to San Francisco, where George (Matt Damon), a retired psychic who can speak to the dead, allows his brother to talk him into giving a reading to a business partner. Peter Morgan's screenplay takes a novelistic approach to the characters -- we spend long sequences with each of them, instead of cutting quickly back and forth. The film's relaxed tone allows us to get a sense of their day-to-day lives before dropping the supernatural elements of the story onto them. Damon benefits the most from this style, particularly because his character has the most compelling storyline; George realizes that a life spent talking about death is no life at all. He repeatedly tells his financially inclined brother that this special ability is a curse, not a gift, and that appears to be true in the movie's best scene -- a date George has with a fellow cooking student (Bryce Dallas Howard), who, after learning about his talents, begs for a reading. The last half of the film is admittedly not as strong as the first. Clunky plot machinations bring the three main characters together, but once that happens, their final scenes together -- particularly the one between George and the surviving twin -- recapture what's best about Hereafter, namely, its quiet, reassuring tone. It's a movie that accepts that death is inevitable, and we can either focus on that sadness or live our lives. It's not terribly deep, and it's not terrifically insightful, but it is a very well-acted and reassuring message.