As good as dead - Dead Like Me: The Movie
| Movie | |
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| German title | As good as dead - Dead Like Me: The Movie |
| Original title | Dead like Me: Life After Death |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | Stephen Herek |
| script | John Masius, Stephen Godchau |
| production | Hudson Hickman, Sara Berrisford, Craig Roessler, Irene Litinsk |
| music | Kevin Kliner, Richard Marvi |
| camera | Bruce Chun |
| cut | Michel Aller |
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As good as dead - Dead Like Me: The Film (Original title: Dead like Me: Life After Death ) is an American fantasy film directed by Stephen Herek from 2009. It continues the plot from the series Dead Like Me - As good as tot (2003-2004) continued. It is a direct-to-DVD production and was released on February 17, 2009. In Germany, the film was broadcast on free TV on July 30, 2011 on RTL II .
action
The film takes place five years after the first series episode: The task of the soul collectors group is to extract the souls of people who are about to die. Their meeting place, the Waffle House, burned down the same day that their leader Rube also disappears. She soon meets her new boss, Cameron Kane, a clever businessman who was killed in a fall from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He equips them with color-coordinated smartphones and pampers them with luxurious accommodations. The group begins to commit misdeeds and to abuse immortality for financial gain.
George Lass is fired from the Happy Times temp agency after yelling at an employee for late delivering a report. The employee quits and later sues her for harassment. George reveals her true identity to her sister Reggie. She helps her prepare for the death of her friend Hudson Hart.
George's friends confront Kane and learn that he recognized and cared that the "pebbles" of their misdeeds would cause "waves" of misfortune elsewhere. Unsatisfied with his leadership style, they try to figure out how exactly a soul collector can be killed. They shoot at and drown him to no avail before finally dismembering and cremating him. His ashes are then shot into orbit along with those of Murray, the cat of Georges Chef Delores. At startup, Delores tells George that the clerk who sued her for harassment did so on several of the clerk's previous jobs, and George is being reinstated, now with a corner office.
The soul collectors go away wondering who their new boss will be. After watching her sister and mother go on vacation, George is suddenly overwhelmed by post-its falling from the sky - which her former leader Rube also used for his assignments to the group. She was elected the new leader of the group.
production
In April 2007, MGM announced that it would develop several direct-to-DVD films and sequels. The first among them was a film based on the Dead Like Me series.
Stephen Herek was hired as a director . With the exception of actors Laura Harris and Mandy Patinkin , the rest of the original cast returned. Patinkin played the role of Rube Sofer in the series . His place was taken over by Henry Ian Cusick , who played the new role of Cameron Kane in the film . Harris was replaced in the film by Sarah Wynter , who took on her role as Daisy Adair . Series creator Bryan Fuller , who left the series after four episodes, was not involved in the production of the film.
synchronization
The German synchronous processing produced, as with the series, Berliner Synchron on, dialogue director led Heike Kospach which also re Dialog book wrote. Some speaking roles have been reassigned for the film.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia "George" Lass | Ellen Muth | Anne Helm |
| Roxy Harvey | Jasmine Guy | Andrea Aust |
| Daisy Adair | Sarah Wynter | Victoria Storm |
| mason | Callum Blue | Norman Matt |
| Joy Lass | Cynthia Stevenson | Sabine Arnhold |
| Reggie Lass | Britt McKillip | Josephine Schmidt |
| Delores Herbig | Christine Willes | Marianne Gross |
| Cameron Kane | Henry Ian Cusick | Markus Pfeiffer |
Web links
- As good as dead - Dead Like Me: The movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b As good as dead - Dead Like Me: The Movie. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 22, 2020 .