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Always (1989)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:14

Rotten:9

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: This remake of the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE stars Richard Dreyfuss as Pete Sandich, a daredevil pilot who specializes in putting out forest fires. Pete promises his girlfriend, Dorinda (Holly... This remake of the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE stars Richard Dreyfuss as Pete Sandich, a daredevil pilot who specializes in putting out forest fires. Pete promises his girlfriend, Dorinda (Holly Hunter), that he will stop flying, but when his best friend, Al (John Goodman), gets into engine trouble while fighting a blaze, Pete attempts a daring rescue--saving his friend but killing himself. Waking up in the afterlife, Pete meets an angel, Hap (Audrey Hepburn), who sends him back to earth as a ghost no one can see or hear. When Dorinda flies into a fire to save trapped smoke jumpers, Pete telepathically talks her through the dangerous mission. Hap tells Pete he must help Dorinda overcome her grief and lead her to a new love with a novice pilot (Brad Johnson). While Pete watches the two start their romance, he battles feelings of jealousy and sadness at giving her up. Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, while working together on JAWS in 1975, found that they shared an affinity for the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE. They managed to come together years later to make their own version of it in ALWAYS. [More]

Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn, Brad Johnson

Director: Steven Spielberg

Director: Steven Spielberg
Composer: John Williams

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10/18/08
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

For all its Spielbergian action and production values, the film is painfully sappy and wastes its A-list cast by saddling them with a hamfisted script.

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05/06/06
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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10/11/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

No review available.

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06/26/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Whimsical and affecting enough, but certainly a lesser Spielberg film.

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05/19/05
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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08/12/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

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03/21/04
Mike McGranaghan
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Aisle Seat

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02/24/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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02/13/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

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11/07/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Boring supernatural romance. Tedius and obvious. Wait until the following year's Ghost.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
About.com

Although Always is filled with big, sentimental moments, it lacks the intimacy to make any of this very moving.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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A light, enjoyable piece of fluff with spectacular flying scenes and a dramatically flat story.

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03/16/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

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12/23/02
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

Always may be starry-eyed romantic claptrap, but by God, would that all starry-eyed romantic claptrap were so well done.

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

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10/14/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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10/11/02
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

A touching, beautifully short romance

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole
 
 
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