Another Day
Another Day
NR | 04 December 2001 (USA)
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Kate's boyfriend dies in a fire after a fight over the couple's unborn child. After Kate is involved in a near-drowning accident a few years later, she wakes up on-shore to find that she's living two days before her boyfriend's fatal fire.

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Jim (jim-1225)

If 'Another Day' is slow and drags for some, it certainly didn't for me. Perhaps I like slow - it allows opportunity to savour the developing plot, and to appreciate the varying relationships between the players. I've only seen this once on TV, but broadly agree with the accuracy of the competent plot summary submitted by Forest R. While I understand that the plot could appear confusing, I thought it made good sense and would reward anyone willing to put a bit of work into it.There are quite a number of flashbacks, but they were used intelligently to link and illuminate points in the plot. My own feeling is that they were not overdone, and are a necessary part of the movie. One hears about 'out of body'/'near death' experiences, and I think this is what is being suggested happened to Kate after Meghan fell into the river, with the added twist of a time warp. This threw light on the truth about the fatal factory fire that occurred a few years previously, an integral part of the story. It was interesting to see two Kates at both showings of the fire - one outside and one inside the factory, each aware of the other. The Kate inside would presumably have coalesced with the Kate seen dragging herself out of the river at the end of her 'out of body' experience on the second showing of her rescue when she was found in 'reality' by the river patrol officer. At the start of the experience and its subsequent events, she was found by Paul as well, this being a mystery as we know Paul was dead years before the river incident. In passing, the duplication of the unique item made by mother and daughter in Meghan's craft class, worn by both David and Kate at the same time, struck me as very neat!My main motivation for adding to the adequate reviews for this title is to put on record what a treat it is to watch a film of attractive characters working out a thoughtful storyline without resorting to foul language, smut or blasphemies. This is a wholesome offering, well acted and directed, and based on ideas which are cleverly presented. I can see no grounds for docking even one of its ten stars. Sadly, this is the real world, so there must be a fly in the ointment somewhere. I discovered the miserable insect when I searched for the DVD. There isn't one at this point in time! I was particularly hoping that there would be subtitles, clear but discreet, and possibly a director's audio commentary which would have been particularly pleasing. Why, oh why, don't film-makers give us the decent films on DVD besides showing them on TV and at the cinema? Reviewers of this title seem broadly agreed on its merits, so I would have thought it only sensible to make it available for home viewing. My wife and I would love to watch it again. This is a movie of real quality.

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whpratt1

Any film that Shannen Doherty appears in usually is outstanding, and she gave a fantastic job of acting through out the entire picture. Doherty played the part of Kate, who lived with a guy named Paul and was deeply in love with him. There is an accident which occurs to Kate and from then on the entire picture is made up of constant flashbacks, almost to the very end of the picture. There was a point during the picture that I was beginning to feel like the story was repeating itself over and over again. As the story unfolded, it became quite an interesting story, but WAY OUT in Left Field. The romance that Kate has with two guys is quite interesting and Kate sure looked hot and sexy attracting for the poor two guys.

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howie73

This is quite unlike any TV movie I have seen in a long time. From the outset, the sense of impending doom is omnipresebt, signified by the lead character's retrospective, all-knowing narration which sets the story up for the viewer as a tale of two parts and two people, united by a common theme - love. Shannen Doherty gives a powerful performance, as well as her co-stars. The problem I had with this movie was the fact it felt restricted by its TV movie conventions, even though it tried in vain to emulate a Sundance-style independent drama. I was impressed by its intentions but less so by the intrusive music which often spoiled the sense of eerie mysticism that was conveyed so well through the fluid cinematography.

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Rick Blaine

We watched this movie twice and were not wiser for it. And each time we not only asked ourselves 'what is happening?' but 'why are we watching this movie?'.Yet we all wanted to get to the end so we'd seen it, so we really knew there was no more to it than that. So we could know that this was a terribly constructed screenplay with enormous gaps, all too slow a tempo, no golden thread, and a whole lot of confusion as icing on this not too palatable cake.So we did all get to the end - twice - and now we know. Approach this movie with a barge pole.

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