After the departure of Rube Sofer, a new head reaper named Cameron Kane takes over. He’s a slick businessman who couldn’t care less about helping the newly dead. Chaos ensues and brings out the worst in Daisy and Mason who begin drinking anew. George and Reggie re-connect for the first time when George reaps a new friend of Reggie’s.
Dead Like Me: Life After Death is a direct-to-DVD movie released on February 17, 2009 and developed by MGM.[2] It is based on the Dead Like Me television series (2003–2004).
Plot
The crew of Reapers find themselves confronted by change, as their habitual meeting place Der Waffle Haus burns down on the same day that their boss and head reaper, Rube, disappears (having "gotten his lights"). They shortly meet their new boss, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), a slick businessman who died falling from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He outfits them with color-coordinated smartphones and treats them to luxurious accommodations, teaching them all that, as Roxy (Jasmine Guy) puts it later, "nothing we do here matters." This tutelage leads the Reapers to perform such misdeeds as saving those they were to Reap (Roxy), stealing money (Mason, played by Callum Blue), drunkenly performing on stage (Daisy, now played by Sarah Wynter), and otherwise selfishly focusing on their wants.[3]
Georgia Lass (Ellen Muth), the movie's narrator, is fired from Happy Time after loudly chewing out an employee for delivering a report late, prompting the employee to quit and sue for harrassment. Georgia ends up admitting her identity to her sister Reggie (Britt McKillip) in order to prevent Reggie from killing herself by leaping out of Georgia's car. Despite Reggie casually believing herself mad, Georgia finds herself reminiscing with Reggie, helping her prepare for the death of her boyfriend Hudson (Jordan Hudyma), and eventually convincing her not to kill herself.[3]
Her fellow Reapers confront Kane and, learning he withheld Reaps and deliberately tempted them to let the "pebbles" of their misdeeds cause "waves" of evil elsewhere, find themselves trying to figure out how exactly a fellow Reaper can be killed as they shoot, drown, and finally dismember and cremate Kane, whose ashes are then shot into orbit along with those of Murray, the cat belonging to Georgia's boss Delores.[3]
The Reapers walk away from the launch, wondering who their new boss is; the movie closes with Georgia finding herself suddenly showered with Post-Its magically falling from the sky (like the Post-Its their former leader Rube used to deliver their Reaps). Realizing she's been selected as the group's new leader, she tells us "I am so fucked" as the camera pulls away from the Earth into orbit.[3]
Cast
- Ellen Muth as George Lass
- Callum Blue as Mason
- Jasmine Guy as Roxy Harvey
- Sarah Wynter as Daisy Adair
- Henry Ian Cusick as Cameron Kane
- Cynthia Stevenson as Joy Lass
- Britt McKillip as Reggie Lass
- Christine Willes as Delores Herbig
- Crystal Dahl as Crystal Smith
Production
Casting
In June 2007, a casting call for the role of Daisy Adair, formerly played by Laura Harris, who was unable to reprise due to commitments with Women's Murder Club, was posted on an entertainment industry website. It noted that John Masius wrote the film and all but confirmed that Mandy Patinkin, who starred in the original series, is not in the film. In August 2007 it was confirmed that Sarah Wynter has taken over the role of Daisy Adair from Laura Harris, while Henry Ian Cusick will play a new character named Cameron Kane.[4]
Release
The film's release date was set for July 2008[5] and later rescheduled and released on February 17, 2009.[6]
An exclusive television debut occurred on January 1, 2009 on SuperChannel in Canada.[7][8]
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