History Film / DeadAgain

** When discussing what happened to Inga, Roman's housekeeper, Baker notes, "last I heard, they opened a shop. [[spoilers:Antiques.]]"

** The scene where Mike agrees to be regressed [[spoiler:has a non-verbal wham moment, when the regressed Mike looks in a mirror and sees the horrified face of Margaret looking back]].

* MeaningfulEcho: "Somebody help me!"

** "[[spoiler:I never meant to hurt you, Margaret.]]" Followed immediately by a ScareChord.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Anklet]]: The anklet Roman gives to Margaret as a wedding present. [[spoiler:Inga later gives it to Mike, and when Grace/Amanda sees he has it, after shooting him - see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below - she realizes he's not out to kill her]].

* CreatorCameo: Music/PatrickDoyle, the composer who has scored most of Kenneth Branagh's movies, appears as a party guest.

''Dead Again'' is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, who stars in it along with Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/DerekJacobi, Creator/AndyGarcia, and Creator/HannaSchygulla.

Detective [[MeaningfulName Mike Church]] (Branagh) is guilted by the priest who raised him into taking the case of a woman he ends up calling Grace (Thompson). She's amnesiac and suffers from trauma-induced muteness, broken by nightmares in which she can only cry out "somebody help me!" and the [[ArcWords word "Disher!"]]. The fact that she turned up at a particular convent indicates she has some connection to the house -- which used to belong to a famous composer named Roman Strauss.

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[[caption-width-right:250:[[CoversAlwaysLie It's not actually a horror film]].]]

''Dead Again'' is a 1991 film directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, starring Branagh, Creator/EmmaThompson, Creator/DerekJacobi, Creator/AndyGarcia and Creator/HannaSchygulla.

* SirSwearsALot: Carlisle - his first words to Mike when Mike tracks him down are, "Fuck you. I'm on a break." See also LifeIsn'tFair above.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/HannaSchygulla, who plays Inga Madsen, is actually five years younger than Creator/DerekJacobi, who plays the older Franklyn Madsen (though it's partly justified in that most of her scenes are with the actor who plays the younger Frankie, who is the right age).

* GenderBender: [[spoiler:The leads were opposite genders in their past lives (and the actors just swapped roles from the FlashBack to the present day scenes).]]

Detective [[MeaningfulName Mike Church]] is guilted by the priest who raised him into taking the case of a woman he ends up calling Grace. She's amnesiac and suffers from trauma-induced muteness, broken by nightmares in which she can only cry out "somebody help me!" and the [[ArcWords word "Disher!"]]. The fact that she turned up at a particular convent indicates she has some connection to the house -- which used to belong to a famous composer named Roman Strauss.

With a little help from a disgraced psychiatrist, Mike and Grace seek out the assistance of a hypnotist, in order to see if hypnosis will bring back her ability to speak in the daytime. When her voice returns in the course of the therapy, the hypnotist decides to try past life regression on both Grace and Mike. Grace's past life reveals a romance between Roman and a woman named Margaret -- and their lives in California as chronicled by a tabloid journalist. As the pieces begin to fall into place, Grace fears that Mike is the reincarnation of the man who killed her in a previous life. The truth is a little stranger than that.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Branagh really struggles with an American accent.

* IfICantHaveYou: A variation; [[spoiler:Frankie apparently feels if his mother can't have Roman, neither than Margaret, which is why he kills her]].

* FamousLastWords: Just before his execution, Roman appeared to whisper something into reporter Grey Baker's ear. Baker never revealed what passed between them [[spoiler:until sixty years later when he finally admits to Mike that Roman said nothing: he kissed Baker's cheek.]]

* {{Cameo}}: Creator/RobinWilliams has three brief scenes as disgraced psychiatrist Cozy Carlisle.