A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Production
That absurd Venezuela jungle set built in LA
Score
John Debney's shamelessly manipulative strings
Director
Tom Shadyac
Kevin Costner
Joe Darrow
Joe Morton
Hugh Campbell
Ron Rifkin
Charlie Dickinson
Susanna Thompson
Emily Darrow
Kathy Bates
Mrs. Belmont
Jacob Smith
Ben
Robert Bailey Jr.
Jeffrey Reardon
Jay Thomas
Hal
Lisa Banes
Flora
Matt Craven
Eric
Leslie Hope
Charisse Darrow
Kim Staunton
Intake Nurse
Liza Weil
Suicide Girl
Nigel Gibbs
Paramedic
Casey Biggs
Neil Darrow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tom Shadyac ditched comedy for this after Patch Adams, proving he learned nothing about mawkish medical melodrama. Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks both passed.
The real dragonfly symbolism in Indigenous cultures is transformation and renewal — the film reduces this to 'dead wife GPS.' The Venezuelan setting exoticizes suffering for white healing.
US
