A man finds his melancholy turning to madness in this thriller. Young lawyer Fielding Pierce (
Billy Crudup) has just thrown his hat in the ring for an upcoming congressional election. He has also been haunted by the memory of his girlfriend Sarah (
Jennifer Connelly), who recently died in a car bombing -- and haunted not just figuratively but literally: he's seeing apparitions of Sarah everywhere, and he's starting to wonder if she's really there or if he's going mad. Waking the Dead is based on a novel by Scott Spencer, who also wrote
Endless Love, and directed by actor-turned-filmmaker
Keith Gordon. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide