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Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 9

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1

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Movie Info

Pianist Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and cellist Jamie (Alan Rickman) played together and loved together. When they weren't making music with each other, they made love. It was an idyllic romantic and musical partnership, and when Jamie dies, Nina takes it very hard. The condolences of friends and relatives don't help much when everything in the apartment they shared reminds her of him. She's a real basket case, and can barely get on with her life. One day, while plunking dejectedly on the piano,

PG, 1 hr. 47 min.

Drama, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Directed By: Anthony Minghella

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1991 Wide

On DVD: Dec 26, 2001

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Critic Reviews for Truly, Madly, Deeply

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (9) | DVD (7)

This is a beguiling film in more ways than one.

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

This sharply scripted study of a bereaved woman who literally wishes her partner back from the grave is an impressive directorial bow by British playwright Anthony Minghella.

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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Miss Stevenson, Mr. Rickman and Mr. Maloney, good actors all, work tirelessly on behalf of the insistently gooey and smug material.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

Minghella lays on the whimsy a bit thick at times, but his wryly funny and heartfelt observations on sorrow go down much easier than the Hollywood brand of lump-in-the-throat histrionics.

May 12, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

It's a sweetly affecting tug of the heart.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

All of these passages of the movie are convincing, in a strange way: This is sort of a Ghost for grownups.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Like Ghost, only British and better.

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

A wonderful, bittersweet little romantic comedy.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

As a metaphor for the experience of bereavement, the conceit is over-extended, though Stevenson almost makes it work.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

off-beat and involving

May 13, 2005 Comment

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Even though the ghosts can walk through walls the script can't get past its emotionally manipulative love story.

March 14, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A truly, madly, deeply romantic film.

January 18, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Odd, effective little comedy fantasy anchored by leads.

December 4, 2003 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Deeply moving film that only underscores the tragedy of continually casting Rickman as a villain.

January 3, 2003 Comment

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I heard raves about this movie but I thought it was horrendous. Stagey, saccharine and painfully PC.

April 9, 2007

Bob Stinson

Super Reviewer

A beautiful and funny romantic drama/comedy about a woman who can't get past the death of her boyfriend, and he comes back as a ghost to help her. I love this movie.

September 6, 2010