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- 20th Century90s
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- USAVermontHaunted House
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What Lies Beneath, 2000
English
USA
Profile of What Lies Beneath
The mood of What Lies Beneath is scary, suspenseful, and tense. The plot centers around a woman in danger, supernatural occurences, and couples relations. It is a thriller, horror, and mystery movie. Stylistically, What Lies Beneath involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a haunted house. What Lies Beneath is set in Vermont. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being a blockbuster and an award winner. Note that What Lies Beneath includes violent content.
Summary of What Lies Beneath
Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a beautiful home on the water in Vermont. But what lies beneath this idyllic existence are secrets that will rip everything apart.
Dr. Spencer is an award-winning scientist whose work is threatening to consume his life; meanwhile, his wife is trying to deal with empty-nest syndrome now that her beloved daughter has gone off to college. Strange things start happening around the house, and Claire starts believing that the man next door murdered his wife and that the wife is trying to contact her from beyond the grave. Dr. Spencer is worried that Claire needs psychological help; he refuses to believe that their house is haunted. But as more and more dangerous events unfold, a frightening truth threatens to destroy everything. Robert Zemeckis's modern-day ghost story trembles with threatening close-ups, a powerful musical score--and lots of terror. And it does for bathtubs what Alfred Hitchcock did for showers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 July 2000 |
| Runtime: | 130 min |
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as Claire Spencer
as Dr. Norman Spencer
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com
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- by: Stephanie Zacharek
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Bob Graham
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- 03.November.2009
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- by: JenM
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- by: Noa
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