Hereafter
(DVD) 

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2010.

Aspect ratio 2.35:1; enhanced for widescreen televisions

Special features: Tsunami!: Recreating a disaster [featurette] (7 min.); Hereafter's locations: Casting the silent characters [featurette] (3 min.); The Eastwood experience [featurette] (4 min.).

Director of photography, Tom Stern ; production designer, James J. Murakami ; editors, Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach ; costume designer, Deborah Hopper ; visual effects supervisor, Michael Owens ; music, Clint Eastwood.

Matt Damon (George Lonegan), Cécile de France (Marie Lelay), Jay Mohr (Billy), Bryce Dallas Howard (Melanie), George McLaren (Marcus/Jason), Frankie McLaren (Marcus/Jason), Thierry Neuvic (Didier), Marthe Keller (Dr. Rousseau), Derek Jacobi (Himself), Lyndsey Marshal (Jackie), Richard Kind (Christos), Steven R. Schirripa (Cooking teacher Carlo), Jenifer Lewis (Candace).

This film peers at an intriguing question--is there an afterlife?--through the lens of George, Marie, and Marcus, who are each tortured in different ways by the thought of life after death. George Lonegan is psychic. It was once his career: he was "the man who can speak to the dead," with a high-traffic website, and a popular biography. But he fled that life, unable to cope with the emotional burden of his abilities. Marie Lelay is a French TV presenter coping with the intense emotions brought on by a near death experience in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. She's written a book on the subject, which was greeted with derision by her colleagues. Marcus and Jason live in a London council estate, covering for their mother, who's a hopeless junkie. When Jason meets a sudden and tragic end, Marcus is set hopelessly adrift, and begins obsessively researching psychics and seers who can help him contact Jason on the other side.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and brief strong language.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen; 5.1 Dolby digital surround.

For private home use only.

In English or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in French, or Spanish; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.