Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead

6.1IMDb Score
Released:2000-03-24
Duration:105 min
Director:Keith Gordon
Actors:Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Hipp, Hal Holbrook, Ivonne Coll
Production:PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Egg Pictures, Gramercy Pictures

Overview:

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

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