Search - Dean Spanley on DVD

Sandy M. (BritFlickFan)
Reviewed on 6/29/2023...

Here we have quite a different take on the age-old question of where do we go after we die. Fisk Sr., after losing a son in the Boer War and his grieving wife shortly thereafter, has carved out a life that keeps him at arms length from anyone to whom he might grow close. His only remaining relative, son Fisk Jr, dutifully visits his curmudgeonly father once a week, but soon finds that he and his father have very little in common. On a whim, he convinces his father to come with him to see a transcendentalist swami who is giving a lecture. The swami doesn't offer much, but another audience member, one Dean Spanley, a clergyman with a penchant for a particular rare wine, is quite another proposition. A clergyman at a Hindu's lecture on the nature of souls is a novelty Fisk Jr. never expected to see, and he becomes intrigued to the point that he pursues an acquaintance with the Dean who has an interesting story to tell while he is under the influence of his favored libation. Through the course of this improbable friendship, both Fisk Sr. and Fisk Jr. come to a better understanding of each other, of the nature of grief, and of the mysteries that lie beyond the veil.

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