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Title: What Were They Thinking?!
Review: I was very disappointed with this movie and was grateful that I purchased it from a bargain bin for only $3.00. Based on the 1934 movie, Death Takes a Holiday, with Frederic March , this movie is pretentious, overly long, boring and even silly in places. Aside from a really bad blond dye job, Brad Pitt seems to sleep walk his way through the proceedings, (one wonders what the quirky Johnny Depp or earnest Keanu Reeves would have done with this role), and Claire Forlani as his love interest is bland and uninteresting with little or no discernible chemistry between the two. The always reliable and highly talented Anthony Hopkins manages to give his always stellar performance with minimal embarrassment. Aside from the 1934 version you can also find a 1971 version with the talented, although unfairly forgotten, Monte Markham which is still superior to this remake.
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