Deja Vu (1984)
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44% of users liked it
(92 ratings)
Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys… More Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys their home. Fifty years go by, and Gregory Thomas (Terry), a screenwriter, sees an old film clip of Ashley who could easily pass for his fiancee Maggie Rogers (Smith). Intrigued by this coincidence, he starts to research a screenplay on the ballerina's life, and to help get more material, he visits a medium (Shelley Winters) who used to know her. The medium reveals that Gregory is the reincarnation of the dead Richardson -- which means the former couple is back together again. Before any celebration is in order, some of the increasingly sinister mystery of how and why the couple died in the long-ago fire has to be cleared up. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Anthony B. Richmond
- Genres
- Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Sep 20, 1985 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Jim Lane, Sacramento News & Review
...a sort of science-fiction riff on the old film-noir classic Laura...
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Cast
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Jaclyn Smith
as Brooke/Maggie
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Nigel Terry
as Michael/Greg
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Claire Bloom
as Eleanor Harvey
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Shelley Winters
as Olga Nabokov
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David Adams
as Chauffeur
- Verna Bloom
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Frank Gatliff
as William Tanner in 1984
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Robin James
as Dancer
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Marianne Stone
as Mabel
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Elizabeth Cantillon
as Dancer
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Richard Graydon
as Capt. Wilson
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Claire Bayliss
as Dancer
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Josephine Buchan
as Research Assistant
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Virginia Guy
as Lead Dancer
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Richard Kay
as William Tanner in 1935
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David Lewin
as Reporter
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Philippa Luce
as Dancer
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Wendy Roe
as Dancer
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Gillian Winn
as Dancer
- Michael Ladkin