[3] Warren Beatty's directorial debut, Heaven Can Wait [4], was one of the biggest comedy hits of 1978, thanks to a great cast, fine performances and witty dialogue that helped make the clunky plot go down a whole lot easier.
[6] It’s not difficult to see why Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones [7] – about a murdered 14-year-old girl who from the hereafter observes the activities of both her family members and her killer – attracted visionary director Peter Jackson [8].
Bob Butler discusses the films in the Beyond This Vale of Tears series, showing on Mondays and Saturdays all through December at the Kansas City Public Library.
[12] Director Clint Eastwood [13] and writer Peter Morgan knew they couldn't prove or disprove life after death. So their film Hereafter [14] became a meditation on the human desire to understand what happens when we die.
[16] What Dreams May Come [17] centers on the afterlife experience of Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams [18]), a pediatrician who descends to the underworld to retrieve his beloved.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-heaven-can-wait-1978
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Warren+Beatty%22+title:%22Heaven+Can+Wait%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15545#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lovely-bones-2009
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22book%22+title:%22The+Lovely+Bones%22
[8] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15443#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/butler-talks-about-beyond-vale-tears
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15383#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-hereafter-2010
[13] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
[14] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+author:%22Clint+Eastwood%22+title:%22Hereafter%22
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15377#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-what-dreams-may-come-1998
[17] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22What+Dreams+May+Come%22
[18] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15324#comment-form
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=31
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=28
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=29
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=30
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=33
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=34
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=35
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=36
[29] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41
