The Mesmerist (2002)

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Release Date: Sep 20, 2002

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Capshaw, Howard Hesseman, Jason Carter, Jo Champa, George Wyner, Galina Jovovich, Michael Goorjian, Richmond Arquette

director: Gil Cates, Jr

Based on the Edgar Allen Poe short story, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," comedy revolves around a doctor who convinces a dying man's family to allow him to put the man in a trance as he takes his final breaths. As the man descends in to the afterworld, he slowly discovers the answer to the ultimate question of mankind...

Who knew Edgar Allen Poe could be funny?

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Any movie that includes L. Ron Hubbard in a roster of deities one might run into in the afterlife is my kind of flick--and such is The Mesmerist, based on the Edgar Allen Poe short story ''The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar.'' In it, a young engaged couple in the '50s, Benjamin (Neil Patrick Harris) and Daisy (Jessica Capshaw), visit her childhood home to pay their last respects to her evil and now dying father, Mr. Valdemar (Howard Hesseman). …