Dragonfly (2002 film)

Dragonfly ( Dragonfly ) is a mystery film or a feature film with psychological fantasy elements by Tom Shadyac, who was produced in 2002. The main role was played by Kevin Costner.

Action

The Chicago doctor Emily Darrow had died in the course of several months of humanitarian action an organization in a bus accident in Venezuela, when their bus plunged into a river. Emily's husband Joe, also a doctor, even after many months of her death can not overcome. It is as if Emily tried desperately to reach him over the death of time. Your parrot goes crazy, seemingly random things fall down, books beat with a breeze on ... the children from their station (cancer patients) dream of her after near-death experiences or paint strange crosses, and he has visions in which even a recently deceased patient trying to tell him something. Appears again and again in the signs and visions of this strange wavy cross, a dragonfly, water and a rainbow. His environment interprets his efforts to pursue these tracks as unresolved grief and ensures the meeting with a psychotherapist. The service at the hospital, he is suspended.

Finally, he finds out that this cross marks the spot on the map where his wife wanted to go: to a waterfall with a rainbow. Is Emily still alive? Her body was never found. Joe Darrow puts himself to Venezuela and discovered indeed a leader of the waterfall with the rainbow. When he shows the photo of his wife in the cemetery of Bustoten recognize Aboriginal his wife and discuss whether they should take him to the village. While the leader is urging to leave, Joe runs off. He nearly drowns himself in the river, when he found the crashed wreckage of the bus. After his rescue, he continues to the village, which is actually locked for tourists.

The locals there see from the photo Emily again and give him a white female baby named " Dragonfly ", which has a birthmark in the shape of a dragonfly on the foot. His wife had reached the village and the child, before she died. Joe returns with his daughter in the United States, where it grows to an image of her mother.

Reviews

Chris Hewitt wrote in the " St. Paul Pioneer Press, " 22 February 2002, the film would be something for the fans of Kevin Costner. " TV14 " 5/2006 wrote that the film was " staged Soulful". The lexicon of international film evaluated the film as " boring Schmonzette that are breathed profound and spiritually themselves, but in reality only common success recipes successful Hollywood films remixes to bring dime a dozen on the road to success ."

Awards

Chea Courtney was nominated in 2003 for the Young Artist Award.

2002 in film Screenplay David Seltzer Roger Birnbaum Film score Dean Semler Don Zimmerman (film editor) Jacob Smith (actor) Peter Hansen (actor) Mystery fiction Patch Adams (Film)
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