text: I can 't believe that the director , Sam Raimi ( The Evil Dead , 1983 ; last year 's A Simple Plan ) thought that all those scenes of Costner and Preston staring into space while the piano plinks would end up in the final cut , but Raimi apparently gave up control of the final cut for the sake of making his first , real mainstream picture .
  
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  Raimi is new to directing .