After.Life (2009) on Netflix
After a fight with her boyfriend Paul, schoolteacher Anna Taylor drives off and crashes. She wakes on a mortician's table, where Eliot Deacon insists she is dead and he can hear her.
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Plot summary
Anna Taylor, a middle school teacher, fights with her boyfriend Paul Coleman at a restaurant and drives off upset. Her car crashes, and she wakes on an embalming table in Eliot Deacon's funeral home, where he is cutting away her clothes. Eliot tells her she is dead and that his gift lets him hear the dead; he injects her with hydronium bromide to keep her muscles relaxed. Anna is certain she is alive. She tries to leave the funeral home and fails, and Paul, who wants to see her body, is turned away because he is not family. Eliot also keeps photographs of the dead he claims he has helped.
Cast
- Laurel Bryceas Young Anna Taylor
- Luz Alexandra Ramosas Diane (as Luz Ramos)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about After.Life (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Vosloo envisioned Naomi Watts for the female lead in After.Life, but the casting never happened and the article says the reasons are unknown.
- While the female lead never went to Naomi Watts for reasons the article does not explain, Liam Neeson reportedly accepted his part in After.Life right after reading the script.
