Déjà Vu 1985 | 80's Movie Guide

Taglines: Their passion crosses the boundaries of time. Déjà Vu movie storyline. Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys their home. Fifty years go by, and Gregory Thomas (Nigel Terry), a screenwriter, sees an old film clip of Ashley who could easily pass for his fiancee Maggie Rogers (Jaclyn Smith). Intrigued by this coincidence, he starts to research a screenplay on the ballerina's life, and to help get more material, he visits a medium (Shelley Winters) who used to know her. The medium reveals that Gregory is the reincarnation of the dead Richardson -- which means the former couple is back together again. Before any celebration is in order, some of the increasingly sinister mystery of how and why the couple died in the long-ago fire has to be cleared up. Déjà Vu is a motion picture released in 1985, produced by Cannon Films. The film, an adaptation of the novel Always, by Trevor Meldal-Johnsen, is a reincarnation love story, directed by Anthony B. Richmond, and written by Richmond, Ezra D. Rappaport, and Arnold Anthony Schmidt. The film stars Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Nigel Terry and Shelley Winters. Déjà Vu (1985) Directed by: Anthony B. Richmond Starring: Jaclyn Smith, Nigel Terry, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom, Richard Kay, Marianne Stone, Michael Ladkin, Josephine Buchan Screenplay by: Ezra D. Rappaport Production Design by: Tony Woollard Cinematography by: David Holmes Film Editing by: Richard Trevor Costume Design by: Marit Allen Set Decoration by: Joanne Woollard Art Direction by: John Siddall Music by: Pino Donaggio Distributed by: The Cannon Group Release Date: May 11, 1985