Always is a 1989 romantic drama directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Brad Johnson. This is also Audrey Hepburn's final film appearance. The film was distributed by Universal Studios and United Artists.
The premise is based on the 1943 movie A Guy Named Joe and follows the same basic plot line. with basic plot similarities in that one of the pilots dies and returns as a ghost to mentor a new p...
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Always is a 1989 romantic drama directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Brad Johnson. This is also Audrey Hepburn's final film appearance. The film was distributed by Universal Studios and United Artists.
The premise is based on the 1943 movie A Guy Named Joe and follows the same basic plot line. with basic plot similarities in that one of the pilots dies and returns as a ghost to mentor a new pilot, only to find the new pilot falling in love with his former girlfriend. Spielberg did not treat the film as a direct homage to the earlier World War II melodrama but it is significant that A Guy Named Joe is aired in a scene in Poltergeist (which like A Guy Named Joe was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, currently sister studio to United Artists, which co-produced Always).
Pete Sandich (Dreyfuss) is one of a group of aerial firefighters, who fly war-surplus aircraft dropping fire retardant slurry to put out forest wildfires. He and Dorinda...
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