Dead Again is a 1991 Psychological thriller/Neo-noir directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson. Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi and Robin Williams are also featured.

The movie was released in August 1991 and was #1 at the U.S. box office for three weeks.

The film explores the themes of reincarnation, destiny and justice through parallel narratives of a society murder in the Hollywood of the 1940s and a modern-day search for the identity of a woman with amnesia. Thompson and Branagh play the key roles in both stories.

Mike Church (Branagh), a smart-alecky Los Angeles private investigator, usually runs down deadbeats and minor heirs for his clients. One day he's called in by the priest in charge of the orphanage where Mike was raised, to help identify a woman (Thompson) who showed up at their gates in a state of shock. The woman is unable to speak and seems to have no recollection of who she is or what happened to her.

After making a few inquiries, Mike takes the woman, whom he calls Grace, to stay at his apartment, where he discovers she has a terror of anything that looks like a pair of scissors. Over the course of a few days, the two of them uncover clues to her identity, but nothing concrete; Mike finds himself intrigued by, protective of, and eventually falling for Grace.

Grace eventually regains her voice during a hypnotic session with an antique dealer (Jacobi), who claims she is having a "past-life" experience. She remembers a couple who lived during the 1940s, a famous conductor and his pianist wife, as if she were part of their history. The antique dealer finds a LIFE magazine identifying the couple as actual people, Roman and Margaret. Margaret was brutally murdered, and Roman was tried and executed for her murder.

Now Mike and Grace wonder: what was her role in the mystery? Why does the antique dealer seem so interested? And what is up with the scissors phobia?

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