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After.Life
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
2009 · Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo · 103 min · Drama · Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
Life is the symptom. Death is the cure.
Plot
Eliot Deacon owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial. Middle school teacher Anna Taylor meets Eliot when she attends the funeral of her piano teacher. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul at a restaurant. She drives off in a state of distress and has a traffic accident. She awakens on an embalming table in the funeral home to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. He tells Anna that he has a gift and that he can hear the dead. Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he has helped "make the transition". Eliot injects Anna with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in."
Paul asks to see Anna's body but Eliot does not allow it on the grounds he is not family. Anna unsuccessfully attempts to escape several times. Eliot tells her she must let go of life as she had not really been living anyway. Eventually, Anna escapes and finds a room with a phone where she reaches Paul, who hangs up thinking it's a prank. Anna comes to believe she has actually died when Eliot lets her see her corpse-like self in a mirror. One of Anna's students sees her and alerts Paul, who begins to suspect she is still alive.
Paul goes to the police station, wanting a search warrant from the police chief, Tom, but is denied. While at the police station, Paul tells the police his belief that Anna is still alive. One of the policemen says a drug called hydronium bromide can be used to fake a death by causing paralysis and a very slow heartbeat. That is the same drug that Deacon injected Anna with at the morgue.
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Crew
- Written by: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk
- Cinematography: Anastas N. Michos
- Edited by: Niven Howie
- Music: Paul Haslinger
- Production design: Ford Wheeler
- Produced by: Brad M. Gilbert, Bill Perkins, Celine Rattray
Cast
- Christina Ricci as Anna Taylor
- Liam Neeson as Eliot Deacon
- Justin Long as Paul
- Chandler Canterbury as Jack
- Josh Charles as Tom Peterson
- Celia Weston as Beatrice Taylor
- Shuler Hensley as Vincent Miller
- Anna Kuchma as Restaurant Patron
- Rosemary Murphy as Susan Whitehall
- Laurel Bryce as Young Anna Taylor
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Lleju Productions, Harbor Light Entertainment, Plum Pictures
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $3,606,395
- Themes: nightmare, funeral, wheelchair, injection, crying, casket, shovel, lily, argument, crucifix
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