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Review Summaries
" Dr. Peter Proud is a college professor in a California college. He begins to have recurring dreams about a past life he onced lived. These dreams play over and over in his mind while sleeping. The same people, places, & details like cars, bridges, homes and such. One horrifying dream is of a man killed by a woman in a rowboat. The man keeps repeating "Marcia don't!" Who is this mystery woman?
Peter Proud then seeks medical treatment for "phantom" ailments, and goes to a "sleep lab" to try to decipher his dreams. But they aren't registering as dreams, actually they aren't registering at all! What to do?
One evening while relaxing with a martini & television, some of his "visions" play out before him on a local documentary "America Past & Present". He sees the arch & the church that have been haunting him in his dreams! He calls the TV station, and tries to find out where this place is. All he can find out is it's in Massachusetts.
From this point he & his girl friend Nora Hayes are on a plane to the East Coast to find out who he was.
Once in Massachusetts the couple drive from town to town. They are unsuccessful until they get to Springfield Mass. Then Peter Proud starts to see familiar sites that have haunted him. The bridge, the church, the Puritan statue, and more. He continues his search alone in Springfield, finally locating the mystery woman's home(Margot Kidder as Marcia), and befriending the woman's daughter at a local country club.
It is from here that the story really heats up. The woman is suspicious of this young man. Why is he here, and how does he know so much? The daughter (Jennifer O'Neill) and Peter Proud, fall in love. But this is a love that has its drawbacks. How can Peter Proud fall ethically in love with this woman, given his dream?
The ending is almost the same as the beginning as Peter Proud comes full circle. "
mariam f donerian, Resident Scholar
"Professor Peter Prous leads a normal life until he has recurrent dreams that disturb him. He goes under hypnosis to be able to make some sense of these dreams and finds that he is a reincarnation from a man in the 1940's who was murdered by drowning at a young age. When Peter Proud decides to find out who he was in this past life, his life becomes endangeered by the same person who killed Peter's 'former self'-a murderer who was never caught in the past violent killing."
Debra Kelley, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 35% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 45%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Explore/1st contact
Yes
Time Travel:
- primarily to the past
Explore plotlet:
- exploring the dreamscape
Romance
Yes
Romance Plotlets:
- falling in love with the unattainable
Spying - Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- finding a killer (criminal)
Time Travel Story?
Yes
To what time period?
- 1900-1960's
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- teleportation
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/medium wavy
Body type
- very skinny (man)
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- Very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- white/grey
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- very skinny (female)
- average (female)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- homemaker or wife
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- skinny (female)
unclothed?
- full frontal
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition
- average physique
- physically sick
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
- 20th Century (1900-1950)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- mansion
- bar/restaurant
- lab
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie
- depressed/sad
- spiritual
Comedy or somewhat funny movie?
Yes
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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