HEREAFTER **

Clint Eastwood directed this Supernatural Drama. Watch Preview. Cast: Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language. Running time is two hours and nine minutes.

Tells the story of three people touched by death in different ways. A blue-collar American (Matt Damon) who has a special connection to the afterlife; a French journalist (Cecile De France) who has a near-death experience; and  a London schoolboy who loses the person closest to him. Their lives intersect, forever changed by what they believe might--or must--exist in the hereafter.

This is where I feel compelled to remind you I review for entertainment value and not for artistic merit. Artistically, this film is very good. The cast is very good and de France is excellent. Unfortunately, there is virtually nothing entertaining here and when you consider the running length, the film becomes too much of too little. The pace of the film is so slow it's hard for me to imagine anyone under fifty willing to sit through it. What you have is three separate stories that don't coalesce until the very end of the film and even then just hint at what may come later. I didn't expect a complete and full explanation of the hereafter, obviously, but I was sure hoping for more than this. Theatres/Times.