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Release Date:
10 September 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
Some doors weren't meant to be opened. more
Plot:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her. full summary | add synopsis
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3 wins
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Zachary David Cope | ... | Jake Witzky |
 | Kevin Bacon | ... | Tom Witzky |
| Kathryn Erbe | ... | Maggie Witzky |
 | Illeana Douglas | ... | Lisa Weil |
 | Kevin Dunn | ... | Frank McCarthy |
| Conor O'Farrell | ... | Harry Damon |
 | Lusia Strus | ... | Sheila McCarthy |
| Stephen Eugene Walker | ... | Bobby |
 | Mary Kay Cook | ... | Vanessa Damon |
 | Larry Neumann Jr. | ... | Lenny |
 | Jennifer Morrison | ... | Samantha Kozac (as Jenny Morrison) |
 | Richard Cotovsky | ... | Neighborhood Man |
 | Steve Rifkin | ... | Kurt Damon |
 | Chalon Williams | ... | Adam McCarthy |
| Liza Weil | ... | Debbie Kozac, the Babysitter |
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Rated R for violence, sexuality and language.
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Japan:PG-12 |
Iceland:16 |
Canada:14+ (Ontario) |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
Philippines:R-18 |
Italy:VM14 (cinema rating) |
Italy:VM18 (tv rating) |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Hungary:16 |
Ireland:18 |
Mexico:B |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:15 (video premiere) |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:13 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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When they were setting up the scene where Maggie leaves Jake at her relative's house, it was realized that they had gone over the number of hours the child actor that plays Jake could work (due to strict Hollywood child labor laws). Crew members had to run from house to house in the neighborhood they were filming in to find a child who looked enough like him to appear as a background character (after their parents' approval and a very quick hair cut) to be able to complete the shot.
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Continuity: When Tom breaks the window with a stone a Virgin Mary statue is visible behind it. The glass falls to pieces and the statue collapses to the floor. When the camera comes back to the window, Virgin Mary is still standing there, behind the broken window, as nothing has happened.
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Quotes:
Tom Witzky:
I never wanted to be famous. I just never expected to be so...
Maggie Witzky: What?
Tom Witzky: I don't know, ordinary.
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Maggie Witzky: What?
Tom Witzky: I don't know, ordinary.
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Referenced in The Tracey Fragments (2007)
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Space Drama
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Is "Stir Of Echoes" based on a book?How does it end?
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I have always admired and marveled at Kevin Bacon's versatility as an actor. From the likable fish-out-of-water guy who trips the light-fantastic through a piece of fluff like FOOTLOOSE, to putting everything on the line to play a pedophile in the unnerving THE WOODSMAN, there's hardly anything he can't - or won't do - to show his amazing range.
That being said, STIR OF ECHOES still holds what is for me one of his all-time Top Five performances.
He plays Tom Witzky, a regular mug living with his family in a working-class suburb of Chicago. Though he loves his family, hotter-than-hot wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and precocious son Jake (Zachary David Cope), he's also a man becoming bored with his life. He wants to do and be something more than who and what he is.
Obviously, the old adage "be careful what you wish for" went right over Tom's head.
At a party for family and friends, Tom volunteers to be hypnotized by his flaky sister-in-law, Lisa (the always excellent Illeana Douglas), who makes a powerful suggestion to Tom that his mind takes literally. What happens next will change his life and everyone's around him forever.
A 'doorway' has been opened inside Tom's head that allows him to communicate with the dead, and for them to reach out and touch him...whether he wants to or not. When the "nightmares" that he's been having begin to intensify, Tom knows he must find a way to close that doorway for good before he loses his family...and his sanity. The urgency is heightened when he discovers how sensitive he was before the hypnotic suggestion, in the most chilling way possible...it seems that son Jake can see and talk to the dead as well.
In the tradition of THE CHANGELING, LADY IN WHITE and THE SIXTH SENSE, the focus of Tom's visions comes from one apparition in particular, who won't leave him or his family in peace until he can figure out what it wants and why. The situation provides fodder for one intense and terrifying performance, and with help from a strong supporting cast, Bacon comes through like a champ.
When movies like this are adapted from older works by classic authors, I usually proceed with the greatest caution. But Richard Matheson's creepy novel has been skillfully transformed by David Koepp, a man who knows a little bit about balancing thoughtful plotting and dialogue with outright terror, (as in APARTMENT ZERO) and the outstanding job he does here will make you think twice the next time somebody wants to 'put you out' at a party with something more than just shots of Captain Morgan...