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WAKING THE DEAD
"Some people fulfill their dream, and that's a pity. Then there are some people who find what they're meant to do." It is 1972. Young Coast Guard officer Fielding Pierce is passionately drawn to Sarah Williams, an idealistic activist. She becomes his great love, and he becomes hers: "We will never be apart," Sarah writes him, in a letter. But, in 1974, fate brutally intervenes when Sarah is murdered in a car bombing. By 1982, Pierce, now a successful county D.A. in Chicago, lives well with his socialite girlfriend, Juliet Beck. Juliet's uncle, Isaac Green, is Fielding's mentor. The governor hand-picks Fielding to run for a Congressional seat. Fielding will soon have everything he's strived for... except his lost love. Suddenly, he becomes consumed by memories, and then visions, of Sarah. Fielding's sister Caroline lends personal and professional support, but his life begins to unravel. Is Fielding losing his sanity, or is Sarah still alive? As the past floods into the present, Fielding struggles to focus on what is, and what was most important to him. Fielding has idealistic hopes in his youth to do some small good in the world within a liberal political system, but for much of the film he is caught between his personal ambition for success and those hopeful dreams of social change. - hollywood.com |
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