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Genres:
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Drama /
Fantasy /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Vincent Ward
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Actors:
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Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Lucinda Jenney,
June Carryl,
Jessica Brooks Grant,
Josh Paddock,
Maggie McCarthy,
Wilma Bonet,
Carin Sprague,
Paul P. Card IV,
Robin Williams,
Annabella Sciorra,
Max von Sydow,
Rosalind Chao,
Matt Salinger,
Werner Herzog
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Duration:
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49 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)101.5
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Plot Summary:
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Intellect mates Chris and Annie couldn't be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, calamity strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for the sake of Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another mischance. What Chris finds is a Paradise different from anything he till the cows come home imagined, where he is guided before Albert, the sooner doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the identical horizontal of qu... iddity. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Torture with Albert and a Tracker to save his wife from the damnation she doesn't even know she is forcing on herself.
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no religions and no polotics! just great acting and a passionate story line
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