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Being Human
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
1994 · Directed by Bill Forsyth · 122 min · Drama · Comedy · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 4 frames
Tagline
For Hector, history has a way of repeating itself.
Plot
In the first incarnation, a caveman's family is taken from him by raiders, due to his cowardice and hesitation. Before his wife is taken away, she shouts, "Don't lose the children!"
The next incarnation is in ancient Rome, where he, Hector, is a slave to a "foolish master" who loses his fortune and is compelled by his creditors to kill himself. He orders Hector to join him. Hector longs to be free to find the children and wife he had before he became a slave, but he has fallen in love with another slave and forgets his waiting family.
In the third incarnation, Hector is a Scottish crusader on his way home to his children. The soul of his master from his life in Rome is now a crusader trying to decide whether to become a priest. They travel together until Hector finds his soulmate from the life in Rome. She is a widow and wishes for Hector to join her family, but his duties to his children in Scotland pull at him.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Bill Forsyth
- Cinematography: Michael Coulter
- Edited by: Michael Ellis
- Music: Michael Gibbs
- Production design: Norman Garwood
- Produced by: David Puttnam, Robert F. Colesberry
Cast
- Robin Williams as Hector
- Theresa Russell as The Storyteller
- John Turturro as Lucinnius
- Anna Galiena as Beatrice
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Priest
- Héctor Elizondo as Dom Paulo
- Lorraine Bracco as Anna
- Lindsay Crouse as Janet
- Jonathan Hyde as Francisco
- Bill Nighy as Julian
Production
- Country: Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, Gaelic
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Enigma Productions, Fujisankei Communications Group, British Satellite Broadcasting
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $5,000,000
- Themes: success, medieval
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