| | | When someone you love dies... are they gone forever?
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound, English, Spanish, Subtitled
Academy Award®-winner Kevin Costner stars as Dr. Joe Darrow in the edge-of-your-seat thriller, Dragonfly. Joe is distraught over the sudden death of his wife. But is she really dead? As a patient returns from the brink of death - with a haunting, inexplicable message - Joe encounters a series of bizarre and impossible coincidences. As he begins to suspect the shocking truth, he will make the most astonishing discovery of all.
"Stunning!" Jeffrey Lyons, NBC
"Kevin Costner [is] in fine form..." Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer
"An uneasy blend of Ghost and Close Encounters..." David Steritt, Christian Scientce Monitor
"An odd--and sometimes creepy--ghost story..." Donald Munro, Fresno Bee
"A supernatural shocker!" Entertainment Forecast
Editor's Note
Lush green aerial photography of the Venezuelan jungle stands in stark contrast to the dark and depressing urbanity of American city life where Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) works as a doctor in the emergency room of Chicago Memorial Hospital. His wife, Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson), was last seen in a rainstorm in Venezuela, where she was on a retreat with the Red Cross offering humanitarian aid. She vanished in a bus accident. There were no survivors and her body was never found. That rich, green, exotic land is left behind as Joe is challenged to persevere through sad, rainy days back home. Joe promised Emily that if anything ever happened to her, he would visit her patients in the oncology ward. Strangely, the children seem to know him, and they say they've seen Emily in their near-death experiences. When Joe begins to believe that Emily is trying to contact him from the other side, his coworkers and his neighbor (a staunch Kathy Bates with a sterling buzz cut) warn him that grief can be a heavy burden to bear. Featuring a handful of frightful moments, an unexpected action sequence, and many emotional dialogues, DRAGONFLY is a pensive movie about coping with death and questioning the possibility of the afterlife. Some of the best scenes of the film involve the hilarious and bizarre Linda Hunt, who plays Sister Madeline, an intense little nun with a bad rep who is plagued by tabloid journalists.
| Features | DVD-ROM Features | | Theatrical trailer | | Best-Selling Author Betty Eadie & Her Near-Death Experience | | Trailer for the Universal blockbuster hit, The Scorpion King | | Thrilling deleted scenes | | The making of Dragonfly | | Commentary with director Tom Shadyac |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 8/1/2006 |
| Running Time: 105 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 21978 | | UPC: 00025192197826 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Box Office
"...Kevin Costner's performance in DRAGONFLY is by far his most substantial piece of acting in many a year..." 05/01/2002 p.62Variety
"...A fitfully affecting supernatural romance....Costner's earnest performance is a major plus for DRAGONFLY....Bates provide a nice dose of common-sense skepticism laced with heartfelt empathy..." 02/25/2002 p.69-77 San Francisco Examiner 6 of 10
...Chances are good that if you loved Ghost or Truly Madly Deeply,you'll at the very least like this fitfully affecting tale of love beyond death and faith beyond reason. And if you're a fan of Kevin Costner, well, so much the better... Slowly, beguilingly, the plot detours into Twilight Zone territory. - Joe Leydon
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