DRAGONFLY

Year: 2002
USA: Universal Pictures
UK: Buena Vista International UK
Cast: Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt, Susanna Thompson, Jacob Vargas, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Erbe, Meg Thalken, Mone Walton, Samantha Smith, Joseph Will, Robert Bailey Jr, Casey Biggs, Paul Terrell Clayton, Matt Craven, Brian J Davis, Paul Gutrecht, Maz Jobrani, Jimmy Leeward, Jay Thomas, Andy Umberger
Director: Tom Shadyac
Country: USA
UK: 104 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic material and mild sensuality
UK Certificate: 12 contains moderate horror
USA Release Date: 22 February 2002
UK Release Date: 7 June 2002


Synopsis

When someone you loves dies are they gone forever?

As head of emergency services at Chicago Memorial Hospital Dr Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) is a respected expert in trauma, but his professional knowledge provides little comfort when tragedy claims the life of his wife. A doctor herself, Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson) was on a medical mercy mission when she was killed in a bus accident on remote mountain road in Venezuela.

Reminders of Emily are everywhere; amongst them are images of dragonflies, a personal totem because of a birthmark on her shoulder. And then there are Emily's former patients on the pediatric oncology ward. Joe promised to look in on them when Emily went to Venezuela, and now finds they offer a surprising link to her. To the kids, Darrow is not a burnt-out E.R. doc but rather Emily's Joe and as some of these patients survived near-fatal experiences Joe begins to believe that Emily is trying to communicate with him - from the other side. While Joe's co-workers and friends worry about his mental stability, Joe comes to realise that he must draw on faith - rather that fact - for answers to his questions.

Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present DRAGONFLY, a supernatural drama directed by Tom Shadyac.