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Plot summary
Nina works as an interpreter in London and teaches English to foreign students. Her boyfriend Jamie, a cellist, has died, and she is overcome by grief. Rats have taken over the house she lives in. Then Jamie appears to her as a ghost, and the pair are together once more. Nina is delighted. He describes for her how he spends his days while she is away at work.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
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- The film's working title, Cello, was a double reference, naming both the instrument played on screen and the Italian word for heaven.
- Minghella said he wrote the script specifically as a vehicle for Stevenson to express all her talents: she plays piano, likes dancing, and has a quirky side she usually cannot express in the classical parts she is asked for.
- Roger Ebert dubbed it a Ghost for grownups, a comparison that stuck because both films about a dead lover returning as a ghost happened to come out around the same time.
- Stevenson said in 2012 that it was the favorite role of her career, commenting that the shoot was like a party.
- It was made for television on a tiny budget of just $650,000, shot in only 28 days.
