Restless (2011) on Netflix
Enoch Brae lost his parents and attends strangers' funerals with his only friend, the ghost of kamikaze pilot Hiroshi Takahashi. At a service he meets Annabel Cotton, who has brain cancer.
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Plot summary
Enoch Brae lives with his aunt Mabel and no longer goes to school, having been expelled after a fight over remarks about his dead parents. A car accident killed them a year ago; he spent a month in a coma afterward, and since waking he sees Hiroshi Takahashi, the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot, who accompanies him to strangers' funerals. At one of those services he meets Annabel Cotton, who reads about birds, especially water birds. She has brain cancer and lives with her older sister Elizabeth and their mother Rachel; Elizabeth is trying to cope with her illness. Enoch and Annabel begin to spend their days together, and their friendship turns romantic.
Cast
- Jesse Hendersonas Alger Cofax
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Restless (2011)
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- During the shoot Gus Van Sant asked his actors to do takes as if they were performing in a silent film; those takes make up a 76-minute silent version of Restless included as an extra on the Blu-ray.
- Restless is dedicated to the memory of Dennis Hopper, the actor and father of its star Henry Hopper, who died of cancer in May 2010.
