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22 December 1989 (USA) moreTagline:
They couldn't hear him. They couldn't see him. But he was there when they needed him... Even after he was gone.Plot:
A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for dare-devil firefighting and his girl. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Interview: An Ice Cream Social With Oscar Winner Richard Dreyfuss (From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 8:46 PM, PDT)
Boos! and Whoop-doos!: The Power of F*@# in a PG-13 World
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Why I love the film Always... more (83 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Dreyfuss | ... | Pete Sandich | |
| Holly Hunter | ... | Dorinda Durston | |
| Brad Johnson | ... | Ted Baker | |
| John Goodman | ... | Al Yackey | |
| Audrey Hepburn | ... | Hap | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Dave | |
| Keith David | ... | Powerhouse | |
| Ed Van Nuys | ... | Nails | |
| Marg Helgenberger | ... | Rachel | |
| Dale Dye | ... | Don | |
| Brian Haley | ... | Alex | |
| James Lashly | ... | Charlie | |
| Michael Steve Jones | ... | Grey | |
| Kim Robillard | ... | Air Traffic Controller | |
| Jim Sparkman | ... | Dispatcher |
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Spain:T | South Korea:15 | Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/12 (Q) | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Iceland:L | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Australia:PGFun Stuff
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When Pete is first strolling through the charred woods, the song he's whistling is the theme song from "Leave It to Beaver" (1957). moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Ted gives CPR to the bus driver, he is clearly pretending to perform chest compressions and breathe into him. Doing real compressions on a beating heart can actually cause the heart to stop. moreQuotes:
Dorinda Durston: ...so he sees this building on fire and then just outside of town is this reservoir, so what he does is...Ted Baker: He takes a plane, he goes over the reservoir, fills it with water, dumps it, puts the fire out.
Dorinda Durston: No! He missed. He hit the post office next door. Knocked it on its butt! It took him three tries. The town was awash; the groceries were burnt. It was fire, flood and famine. If he could have managed plague, it would have been the four horsemen of the apocalypse in one PBY. I mean he was unique.
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I'll just be honest here --- when I originally saw Always at the cinema in 1989, it was just a few months after my big brother passed away prematurely at the age of forty, and I'm not at all afraid to say that I cried like a baby. Like so many Americans, I have watched far too many films that i have taken to heart, but you know, Always is probably one of the final American films to ever really explore and display such deep human issues as unconditional love, mortality, and what a hero really is -- and isn't. It may be mushy, romantic, and a bit flawed, but I am proud that Spielberg made this bitter-sweet film -- I just saw it again and, if anything, it comes across as even more humane and honest in today's America of aggression, greed, and "relative" truth. If you've ever really, honestly, been so in love and committed to someone that you were willing to unconditionally put their needs before you own, or if you've ever lost anyone who meant the world to you, check it out. It changed my life when I first saw it because it made consider death in a new light... and it is about to totally change my life again as I have decided to live every moment for the rest of it as honest and decent and true to myself as possible --something that few of us today are willing to admit is lacking in our lives.