The Dead is a 1987 film directed by John Huston, starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. The Dead was the last film that Huston directed, and it was released posthumously. According to Pauline Kael, "Huston directed the movie, at eighty, from a wheelchair, jumping up to look through the camera, with oxygen tubes trailing from his nose to a portable generator; most of the time, he had to watch the actors on a video monitor outside the set and use a microphone to speak to the crew. Yet he went into dramatic areas that he'd never gone into before - funny, warm family scenes that might be thought... completely out of his range. Huston never before blended his actors so intuitively, so musically." It was adapted from the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce , and nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design. The film takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party held by two elderly sisters. The story focuses attention on the academic Gabriel Conroy and his discovery of his wife Gretta's memory of a deceased lover.
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| Release date: | September 3, 1987 |
| Directed by: | John Huston |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Chris Sievernich, Wieland Schulz-Keil |
| Editor: | Roberto Silvi |
| Music by: | Alex North |
| Cinematography: | Fred Murphy |
| Screenplay by: | Tony Huston |
| Adapted from: | The Dead |