Before ‘Belfast,’ Branagh Scared Us Silly with ‘Dead Again’

There was a brief period of my life where I thought Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson were Americans, and that has everything to do with Branagh’s 1991 thriller, “Dead Again.”

I had initially missed Branagh’s debut film, the celebrated Shakespeare adaptation of “Henry V” (1989) and was convinced not only by the persuasive west coast accents he and Thompson (both Brits) sported in “Dead Again” but also by the enthralling nature of the film itself.

Branagh’s Mike Church is a Los Angeles detective who helps a woman stricken with amnesia (Thompson). A chance encounter with an antique shop owner (Derek Jacobi) leads them on a strange path: through hypnosis, we learn of a murder that took place in the 1940s and how it may play into the present.

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Sep 15th 2021
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