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** And of course Gray Baker shows how bad an idea it can be, with a nauseating close-up of him smoking through his stoma.
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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Franklin's stutter]] is a nice call back to Jacobi's role in ''Series/IClaudius''.
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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Franklin's stutter]] is often assumed to be a nice call back to Jacobi's role in ''Series/IClaudius''.''Series/IClaudius'', but actually it's just a nice coincidence; that aspect of the character was settled on well before Jacobi was cast.
* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: [[spoiler:Roman, when he finds Margaret's body, thereby getting the fingerprints on the murder weapon that contribute to him being convicted of the murder.]]
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* ArmchairPsychology: Cozy Carlisle was once a genuine psychiatrist, but was stripped of his right to practice.
* BedlamHouse: The hospital where Mike tries to fob off Grace. It's strictly for women, but the place is full of extreme insanity cases and the staff is clearly either apathetic or overburdened. Mike fancies himself a tough guy detective who doesn't want to be burdened with a woman; but he can't bring himself to leave Grace in a place like this. So he takes her back to his apartment.
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* DumbStruck: Grace, until her first hypnotherapy session. (In the DVDCommentary, the writers confess that this was added in a later draft when they realised that all her lines up until that point were just variations on "Sorry, I don't remember".)
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* DumbStruck: Grace, until her first hypnotherapy session. (In session (in the DVDCommentary, the writers confess that this was added in a later draft when they realised realized that all her lines up until that point were just variations on "Sorry, I don't remember".)
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''Dead Again'' is a 1991 film directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, starring Branagh, EmmaThompson, Creator/DerekJacobi and Andy Garcia.
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* DrugsAreBad: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
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* DrugsAreBad: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; time, and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
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** Also, in the story Pete tells Grace about the grisly murder scene he witnessed, he says he passed out upon viewing it, and when he woke up, he couldn't remember who he was. He got better, though.
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* {{Montages}}: a rare [[OpeningScroll opening montage]] of [[SpinningNewspaper newspaper headlines]], outlining the end of Roman and Margaret Strauss.
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* MyMemoryMyArt: [[spoiler:Grace/Amanda's art has a persistent scissors motif.]]
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* WithThisRing: Mike asks the amnesiac if she wears her Irish Wedding Band (Claddagh ring) in the "married" or "single" position. He's disappointed to see she wears it in the married position [[spoiler: Until it's revealed they're reincarnated husband and wife]].
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* WithThisRing: Mike asks the amnesiac if she wears her Irish Wedding Band (Claddagh ring) in the "married" or "single" position. He's disappointed to see she wears it in the married position [[spoiler: Until until it's revealed they're a reincarnated husband and wife]].
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It\'s undeniably a dramatic stutter, but it doesn\'t fit the trope description to be a Dramatic Stutter.
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* DrugsAreBad: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
** This inspires a horrified Mike to successfully quit smoking.
** This inspires a horrified Mike to successfully quit smoking.
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* [[DrugsAreBad Smoking Is Bad]]: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
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* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Franklin's stutter]] is a nice call back to Jacobi's role in ''IClaudius''.
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* OminousLatinChanting: The finale has a three-way fight among Mike, Grace and Frankie, with the voices chanting away in the background.
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** The music is supposed to be from the opera Roman Strauss had finished the night Margaret was murdered.
** The music is supposed to be from the opera Roman Strauss had finished the night Margaret was murdered.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh hi there, Wayne Knight (aka Nedry from JurassicPark)
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* Montages: a rare [[{{Crawl}} opening montage]] of [[SpinningNewspaper newspaper headlines]], outlining the end of Roman and Margaret Strauss.
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-->'''Cozy Carlisle''': Hey, thumbdick, I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. OK, I slept with a patient or two. It's not like I didn't care about them. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't fair, is it?
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-->'''Cozy Carlisle''': Hey, thumbdick, I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen Sixteen and a half years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. OK, I slept with a patient or two. It's not like I didn't care about them. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't Ain't fair, is it?
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[[caption-width-right:250:[[CoversAlwaysLie It's not actually a horror film]].]]
''Dead Again'' is a 1991 film directed by KennethBranagh, starring Branagh, EmmaThompson, DerekJacobi and Andy Garcia.
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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo:
** Kenneth Branagh plays both Mike Church and Roman Strauss, while Emma Thompson plays both Grace and Margaret Strauss.
** In addition, Jo Anderson plays the nun who's pleading Grace's case in the present day, and a starlet who dismisses Roman in the past sequence, while composer Patrick Doyle plays a cop in the present day, and a party-goer in the past sequence.
* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Franklin's stutter]] is a nice call back to Jacobi's role in ''IClaudius''.
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:The young Franklin gives this speech as he's stabbing Margaret to death with the scissors.]]
* ArmchairPsychology: Cozy Carlisle was once a genuine psychiatrist, but was stripped of his right to practice.
* BedlamHouse: The hospital where Mike tries to fob off Grace. It's strictly for women, but the place is full of extreme insanity cases and the staff is clearly either apathetic or overburdened. Mike fancies himself a tough guy detective who doesn't want to be burdened with a woman; but he can't bring himself to leave Grace in a place like this. So he takes her back to his apartment.
* {{Cameo}}: RobinWilliams has three brief scenes as disgraced psychiatrist Cozy Carlisle.
* CatapultNightmare: Grace
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The Roman and Margaret timeline.
* DramaticStutter
* DumbStruck: Grace, until her first hypnotherapy session. (In the DVDCommentary, the writers confess that this was added in a later draft when they realised that all her lines up until that point were just variations on "Sorry, I don't remember".)
* EasyAmnesia:
** Well, not entirely easy, but Grace is the amnesiac linchpin of the whole movie.
** Also, in the story Pete tells Grace about the grisly murder scene he witnessed, he says he passed out upon viewing it, and when he woke up, he couldn't remember who he was. He got better, though.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: The first time we see Roman's face.
* FlashBack: More past life regression through hypnosis, but you get the idea.
* 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).]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking:
** Time-appropriate in the Roman and Margaret timeframe: everyone smoked during that time.
** Mike, the private eye, was pretty much required by the genre to smoke. The RunningGag of the film is that he's trying to quit.
* HypnoFool: Averted. Mr. Madsen gets people to regress to past lives, but there's no Svengali-like command, or making people act like chickens. Though he wouldn't mind if you found him the odd bit of antique furniture while regressing.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Carlisle has this reaction when Mike explains to him [[spoiler: that he was Margaret Strauss, and Grace was Roman Strauss]].
* LifeIsntFair
-->'''Cozy Carlisle''': Hey, thumbdick, I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. OK, I slept with a patient or two. It's not like I didn't care about them. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't fair, is it?
* MamaBear: Inverted. Inga protected Frankie for more than 30 years, but he did not display his gratitude appropriately.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Somebody help me!"
* MeaningfulName:
** Mike ''Church'' was raised in the convent where Grace showed up.
** [[spoiler:Franklin Madsen, which sounds like "mad son"]].
* MementoMacGuffin: the anklet.
* MonochromePast
* OminousLatinChanting: The finale has a three-way fight among Mike, Grace and Frankie, with the voices chanting away in the background.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Branagh.
* PastLifeMemories: Madsen brings out Grace's (and later Mike's) past life memories through hypnosis.
* ThePowerOfLove: Aided by the anklet mentioned above.
* PrivateDetective: Mike.
* {{Reincarnation}}
* ReincarnationRomance
* RescueRomance
* [[DrugsAreBad Smoking Is Bad]]: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Inverted; though Robin Williams does appear prominently in the trailer, he's only in three scenes, and isn't listed in the opening credits or the poster. In interviews, Williams said he did this deliberately so he could [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and audiences wouldn't assume the movie was a comedy.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Grace.
* TimeStandsStill: In the finale, Mike manages to run across the room and position a giant set of scissors under the villain in the time it takes him to run forward and leap a couple of feet.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler: Franklin kills his mother this way for ratting him out to Mike]].
* WhamLine:
-->[[spoiler: '''Mike Church:''' I never meant to hurt you, Margaret.]]
** Followed immediately by a ScareChord.
* WithThisRing: Mike asks the amnesiac if she wears her Irish Wedding Band (Claddagh ring) in the "married" or "single" position. He's disappointed to see she wears it in the married position [[spoiler: Until it's revealed they're reincarnated husband and wife]].
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[[caption-width-right:250:[[CoversAlwaysLie It's not actually a horror film]].]]
''Dead Again'' is a 1991 film directed by KennethBranagh, starring Branagh, EmmaThompson, DerekJacobi and Andy Garcia.
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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo:
** Kenneth Branagh plays both Mike Church and Roman Strauss, while Emma Thompson plays both Grace and Margaret Strauss.
** In addition, Jo Anderson plays the nun who's pleading Grace's case in the present day, and a starlet who dismisses Roman in the past sequence, while composer Patrick Doyle plays a cop in the present day, and a party-goer in the past sequence.
* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Franklin's stutter]] is a nice call back to Jacobi's role in ''IClaudius''.
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:The young Franklin gives this speech as he's stabbing Margaret to death with the scissors.]]
* ArmchairPsychology: Cozy Carlisle was once a genuine psychiatrist, but was stripped of his right to practice.
* BedlamHouse: The hospital where Mike tries to fob off Grace. It's strictly for women, but the place is full of extreme insanity cases and the staff is clearly either apathetic or overburdened. Mike fancies himself a tough guy detective who doesn't want to be burdened with a woman; but he can't bring himself to leave Grace in a place like this. So he takes her back to his apartment.
* {{Cameo}}: RobinWilliams has three brief scenes as disgraced psychiatrist Cozy Carlisle.
* CatapultNightmare: Grace
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The Roman and Margaret timeline.
* DramaticStutter
* DumbStruck: Grace, until her first hypnotherapy session. (In the DVDCommentary, the writers confess that this was added in a later draft when they realised that all her lines up until that point were just variations on "Sorry, I don't remember".)
* EasyAmnesia:
** Well, not entirely easy, but Grace is the amnesiac linchpin of the whole movie.
** Also, in the story Pete tells Grace about the grisly murder scene he witnessed, he says he passed out upon viewing it, and when he woke up, he couldn't remember who he was. He got better, though.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: The first time we see Roman's face.
* FlashBack: More past life regression through hypnosis, but you get the idea.
* 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).]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking:
** Time-appropriate in the Roman and Margaret timeframe: everyone smoked during that time.
** Mike, the private eye, was pretty much required by the genre to smoke. The RunningGag of the film is that he's trying to quit.
* HypnoFool: Averted. Mr. Madsen gets people to regress to past lives, but there's no Svengali-like command, or making people act like chickens. Though he wouldn't mind if you found him the odd bit of antique furniture while regressing.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Carlisle has this reaction when Mike explains to him [[spoiler: that he was Margaret Strauss, and Grace was Roman Strauss]].
* LifeIsntFair
-->'''Cozy Carlisle''': Hey, thumbdick, I was a damn good shrink. Nineteen years I worked with a lot of people through a lot of shit. OK, I slept with a patient or two. It's not like I didn't care about them. I loved being a doctor. I used to not charge half my patients. Then the fucking state comes along, they send in some bitch undercover, and I'm fucked. Life isn't fair, is it?
* MamaBear: Inverted. Inga protected Frankie for more than 30 years, but he did not display his gratitude appropriately.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Somebody help me!"
* MeaningfulName:
** Mike ''Church'' was raised in the convent where Grace showed up.
** [[spoiler:Franklin Madsen, which sounds like "mad son"]].
* MementoMacGuffin: the anklet.
* MonochromePast
* OminousLatinChanting: The finale has a three-way fight among Mike, Grace and Frankie, with the voices chanting away in the background.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Branagh.
* PastLifeMemories: Madsen brings out Grace's (and later Mike's) past life memories through hypnosis.
* ThePowerOfLove: Aided by the anklet mentioned above.
* PrivateDetective: Mike.
* {{Reincarnation}}
* ReincarnationRomance
* RescueRomance
* [[DrugsAreBad Smoking Is Bad]]: Gray Baker is still alive in Mike's time; and dying of throat cancer from the smoking habit he had [[SmokingIsCool during his reporter days]]. And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cig and smokes it through his trach tube.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Inverted; though Robin Williams does appear prominently in the trailer, he's only in three scenes, and isn't listed in the opening credits or the poster. In interviews, Williams said he did this deliberately so he could [[PlayingAgainstType play against type]], and audiences wouldn't assume the movie was a comedy.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Grace.
* TimeStandsStill: In the finale, Mike manages to run across the room and position a giant set of scissors under the villain in the time it takes him to run forward and leap a couple of feet.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler: Franklin kills his mother this way for ratting him out to Mike]].
* WhamLine:
-->[[spoiler: '''Mike Church:''' I never meant to hurt you, Margaret.]]
** Followed immediately by a ScareChord.
* WithThisRing: Mike asks the amnesiac if she wears her Irish Wedding Band (Claddagh ring) in the "married" or "single" position. He's disappointed to see she wears it in the married position [[spoiler: Until it's revealed they're reincarnated husband and wife]].
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