Synopsis
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
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Cast
- Christina RicciAnna Taylor
- Liam NeesonEliot Deacon
- Justin LongPaul
- Chandler CanterburyJack
- Josh CharlesTom Peterson
- Celia WestonBeatrice Taylor
- Shuler HensleyVincent Miller
- Anna KuchmaRestaurant Patron
- Rosemary MurphySusan Whitehall
- Laurel BryceYoung Anna Taylor
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
We can enjoy the suspense of the opening scenes, and some of the drama. The performances are in keeping with the material. But toward the end, when we realize that the entire reality of the film is problematical, there is a certain impatience. It's as if our chain is being yanked. - 60
Time Out
This is one case where there’s more life in the morgue than out. - 60
Variety
The potent imagery never meshes with narrative logic in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's first feature, promising more than it can deliver. - 60
Arizona Republic
Neeson's performance is so eerie, in a buttoned-down sort of way. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Clean, precise and terribly sullen, After.Life is like its female protagonist. It feels stuck between worlds, or genres. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Requires Neeson to stare coldly and talk to corpses, but Ricci has the greater dramatic challenge: She has to operate, unfazed, in close-up nakedness much of the time. - 42
The A.V. Club
Caught in a pretentious no-man’s land between horror and melodrama. - 40
Village Voice
Somewhere in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's awkward debut feature is a macabre and almost quaint Gothic mystery begging to be left alone.
