They are shown embracing and Anna tells Paul she has always loved him. Driving under the influence of alcohol, Paul rushes to the cemetery. She cries out and desperately scratches the satin lining of the lid. Meanwhile, Anna is shown awakening to the sound of earth being shoveled onto her casket.
At the funeral, Paul places the engagement ring he intended to give her the night of the crash on her finger.Īfter the funeral, Paul drinks heavily and behaves aggressively with Eliot, who seems to taunt him and encourage him to see for himself that Anna is really dead, telling him there is not much time. Eliot injects her one last time and she slips into unconsciousness. Eliot holds up a small mirror, and while she stares at herself she notices her breath condensing on the glass and accuses Eliot of having lied to her about her being dead. The boy accepts and is later seen burying a living chick in a box.ĭuring the final preparation for the funeral, Anna asks to see herself one last time. One of Anna's students sees her and alerts Paul, who begins to suspect she is still alive.Īnna's student Jack visits the funeral home and Eliot tells him that they share a gift, the same as Jesus, who raised Lazarus, and he offers to teach the boy more. Anna comes to believe she has actually died when Eliot lets her see her corpse-like self in a mirror. Eventually, Anna escapes and finds a room with a phone where she reaches Paul, who hangs up thinking it's a prank. Eliot tells her she must let go of life as she had not really been living anyway. Anna unsuccessfully attempts to escape several times. Paul asks to see Anna's body but Eliot does not allow it on the grounds he is not family. Eliot injects Anna regularly with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in." Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he has helped "make the transition". He tells Anna he has a gift and that he can hear the dead. She awakens on an embalming table in the funeral home to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. She drives off in a state of distress, and has a traffic accident.
That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul at a restaurant. Middle school teacher Anna Taylor attends the funeral of her piano teacher where she meets Eliot. Plot Įliot Deacon owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial. It stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Long. After.Life is a 2009 American psychological horror- thriller film directed by Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Vosloo from her original screenplay.
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