Always is a 1989 romantic drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson and Audrey Hepburn in her final film appearance. The film was distributed by Universal Studios and United Artists. Always is a remake of the 1943 romantic drama A Guy Named Joe although Spielberg did not treat the film as a direct homage to the earlier World War II melodrama. The film follows the same basic plot line: the spirit of a recently dead expert pilot mentors a newer pilot, while watching him fall in love with his surviving girlfriend. The names... of the four principal characters of the earlier film are all the same, with the exception of the Ted Randall character, who is called Ted "Baker" in the remake and Pete's last name is "Sandich", instead of "Sandidge". Pete Sandich is an aerial firefighter, flying a war-surplus A-26 bomber dropping fire retardant slurry to put out forest wildfires. His excessive risk taking in the air deeply troubles his girlfriend, Dorinda Durston , a pilot who doubles as a dispatcher, and is also of concern to his best friend, Al Yackey , a fellow fighter.
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| Release date: | December 22, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Steven Spielberg |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy |
| Editor: | Michael Kahn |
| Music by: | John Williams |
| Cinematography: | Mikael Salomon |
| Estimated budget: | $29,500,000 |
| Genre: | Fantasy |