Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Direction
Eastwood's restraint lets silence do the heavy lifting.
Acting
Damon's reluctant psychic is career-best understated agony.
Sound
The tsunami sequence's audio design is genuinely terrifying.
Director
Clint Eastwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The opening tsunami sequence was created with practical water tanks and miniatures, not CGI — Eastwood insisted on physical reality for emotional authenticity.
Peter Morgan's script was inspired by real research into near-death experiences and genuine psychic claims, which Eastwood treated with uncharacteristic earnestness rather than skepticism.
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