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After reading a number of professional reviews, I begin to wonder if there really is a "conspiracy of silence" about the NDE. Not one reviewer mentioned the decades-long research of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the Swiss psychiatrist (sound familiar?)who did this pioneer work scientifically, without woo-woo psychics. In a tribute after her 2004 death, Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author of How We Die, wrote in Time magazine that "her 1969 blockbuster, On Death and Dying, {was}written at a time when the topic was rarely discussed in public and studiously avoided at the bedside."

As a retired journalist who experienced an NDE, I'm astounded by the closed minds which declare this a bad movie and an implausible story. No, it isn't a perfect movie, but it's brave and thoughtful and well worth seeing if you're mindful.

It would be nice if people would stop saying it's the product of an 80-year-old man facing his own mortality: Like all movies, it's the product of a team.

although full of unnecessary fiction. It's very loosely "based on a true story," but it was very nice to see those early days of Napa Valley wineries, when it was a lot less pretentious. Miguel Sandoval's few moments are priceless, although I wonder why his character, Mr. Garcia, has a different name from his son, Gustavo Brambila. Does anyone know if that's common in Mexico or if Gustav will was using his mother's name, or if Mr. Garcia was one of the invented characters? Whatever, he was a treat, as Sandoval always is. The tiny role was a terrible waste of his talents; I hope he enjoyed himself on location :-)

as every DLM fan knows,things change. There comes a time to let it go, don't look back, move on. It's just a shame that the amateurs got hold of this, since they clearly don't understand what reaping is all about or what any reasonable end to this story would be. Actually, they do get it in their handling of Mandy Patinkin's unavailability to replay Rube, but apparently they weren't listening to themselves or they would have known how to deal with the absence of Laura Harris. Sarah Wynter is probably a perfectly nice person and decent actress but she is not the Daisy we came to love/hate. not even close. Henry Cusick as the new head reaper is as slimy as the script wants him to be, but what kind of warped sensibility wanted him to be that? It's lovely to see the grown up Britt McKillip, and making un-George a whole lot more attractive should have been done in the first place. Otherwise, nothing to see here, move along.