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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Sebastian Gutierrez (written by)
Release Date:
21 November 2003 (USA)
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Tagline:
Because someone is dead doesn't mean they're gone. more
Plot:
Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Psychiatrist
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Ghost
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Murder
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Dead Husband
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Intimidation
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Awards:
1 win
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7 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(60 articles)
Film: Review:Women In Trouble
(From The AV Club. 12 November 2009, 12:07 PM, PST)
Cinematical Seven: Good Actors in Bad Horror
(From Cinematical. 27 October 2009, 9:02 PM, PDT)
(From The AV Club. 12 November 2009, 12:07 PM, PST)
Cinematical Seven: Good Actors in Bad Horror
(From Cinematical. 27 October 2009, 9:02 PM, PDT)
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Pschologically creepy, but a little flawed
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Halle Berry | ... | Miranda Grey | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | ... | Pete Graham | |
| Charles S. Dutton | ... | Dr. Douglas Grey | |
| John Carroll Lynch | ... | Sheriff Ryan | |
| Bernard Hill | ... | Phil Parsons | |
| Penélope Cruz | ... | Chloe Sava | |
| Dorian Harewood | ... | Teddy Howard | |
| Bronwen Mantel | ... | Irene | |
| Kathleen Mackey | ... | Rachel Parsons | |
| Matthew G. Taylor | ... | Turlington | |
| Michel Perron | ... | Joe | |
| Andrea Sheldon | ... | Tracey Seavers | |
| Anana Rydvald | ... | Glass Cell Nurse | |
| Laura Mitchell | ... | Inmate | |
| Amy Sloan | ... | Inmate |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated R for violence, brief language and nudity.
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Runtime:
98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-15 |
Japan:PG-12 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) |
Iceland:16 |
Malaysia:18PL |
USA:R (certificate #40310) |
France:-12 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:14A |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:18 |
Norway:15 |
Philippines:R-13 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
UK:15
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Halle Berry broke her arm filming a scene with Robert Downey Jr.. Downey was supposed to grab her arm and twist but twisted too hard and the arm snapped. Production was halted for eight weeks.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Miranda enters the shed, she is startled by an owl. You can hear it fly around. Owls fly silently.
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Movie Connections:
References Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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Soundtrack:
Behind Blue Eyes
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| One Question | sylvia67 |
| Why is she helped? | tusharfrompune |
| So who killed Doug? | brucedgo |
| Circumcision? | Falkner09 |
| miranda/pete | ilurveweasel |
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Halle Berry plays brilliant criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey; an expert in what is rational, logical and sane. After she encounters a mysterious young girl, she finds herself confined to the institute in which she once worked; along side the patients she once treated. She has to rationalise what is real in her own mind, before she loses it forever.
The setting and atmosphere that is created in Gothika is excellent, and the movie is definitely creepy enough to jangle your nerves. Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz and Robert Downey Jnr all fit into their roles nicely; the problem is plain and simple. The storyline and script are too weak to achieve what this movie sets out to do, and because of some lame dialogue and a flawed plot the movie only manages to be decent; when it really should have been great.
6/10 It's still worth watching.