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Overview

User Rating:
5.4/10   18,538 votes
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Director:
Geoffrey Sax
Writer:
Niall Johnson (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
7 January 2005 (USA) more
Tagline:
The dead are trying to get a hold of you. more
Plot:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave, becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
An intriguing subject gone haywire *1/2 more (393 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and language.
Runtime:
101 min | Sweden:94 min
Country:
Canada | UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
The recording used in the trailer that is attributed to Stanley Searles ("I love you.") is thought to be the "ghostly" voice of Searles himself, a former politician who died in 2002. The recording was said to have been made by Searles' daughter, an well-known EVP researcher named Karen Mossey. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When John is at Carol Black's funeral, he stops to Carol Black's husband. A bald man with dark rimmed glasses walks past them to exit the church, and takes an obvious look at Carol Black's husband. The camera then focuses on John for a couple seconds. When the camera again focuses on Carol Black's husband, the same bald man with dark rimmed glasses walks past them to exit the church. more
Quotes:
Jonathan Rivers: Order me a bouquet of flowers, lilies. And some champagne, no, chocolates, a big box, those Belgian kind. Know what I mean? What? What are you looking at now?
John's Secretary: Something's up. Something's really up.
Jonathan Rivers: Would you just...
John's Secretary: I'm going, I'm going. But I know something's up.
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Movie Connections:
References The Salton Sea (2002) more
Soundtrack:
In My Nursery more

FAQ

How does it end?
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72 out of 106 people found the following comment useful.
An intriguing subject gone haywire *1/2, 9 January 2005
3/10
Author: JoeKarlosi from U.S.A.

What a shame it is when a potentially captivating and refreshingly low-key story manages to latch onto your interest at the start and then gradually lets you down further and further until you're left scratching your mystified head by the time it reaches its overdone conclusion. Unfortunately, this is what happened to me by the end of WHITE NOISE.

It wasn't Michael Keaton's fault; it was a pleasure to see him return as the star of a brand new movie once again, looking a bit wrinkled perhaps, but still managing to give a strong and sincere performance. As a man whose wife has recently died, he becomes obsessed with her wandering spirit in the afterlife (not a new idea), apparently getting contacted by her through that funky electrical fuzz business you see on your television screen when there's nothing being broadcast.

The idea of spirits communicating via the airwaves is called EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and there are a lot of people who actually believe in it for real, so I'm not going to make any comments about what I think of that, or them. Let me just say that I'm all for suspension of disbelief when it comes to buying into fantastic films like this, but what I can't tolerate is not understanding what the hell was supposed to be taking place, which is about where I was left stranded when the credits finally began to roll. Much static indeed.

There are occasionally movies like this that have me completely baffled, but if a film fails to make itself clear for me, I tend to consider that to be the fault of the filmmaker, not my own (unless I watched it while I was too tired to focus or something). Well, for WHITE NOISE I was wide awake, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed -- so guess who's to blame?

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