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Stir of Echoes

  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
83K
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Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes (1999)
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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 him.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 him.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 him.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
83K
YOUR RATING
    • David Koepp
    • Richard Matheson(novel "A Stir of Echoes")
    • David Koepp(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kevin Bacon
    • Zachary David Cope
    • Kathryn Erbe
    • David Koepp
    • Richard Matheson(novel "A Stir of Echoes")
    • David Koepp(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kevin Bacon
    • Zachary David Cope
    • Kathryn Erbe
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 426User reviews
    • 134Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
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    Kathryn Erbe in Stir of Echoes (1999)
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    Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, and Zachary David Cope in Stir of Echoes (1999)
    Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes (1999)
    Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, and Kathryn Erbe in Stir of Echoes (1999)
    Illeana Douglas in Stir of Echoes (1999)
    Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Morrison in Stir of Echoes (1999)
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    Kevin Bacon
    Kevin Bacon
    • Tom
    Zachary David Cope
    Zachary David Cope
    • Jake
    Kathryn Erbe
    Kathryn Erbe
    • Maggie
    Illeana Douglas
    Illeana Douglas
    • Lisa
    Kevin Dunn
    Kevin Dunn
    • Frank
    Conor O'Farrell
    Conor O'Farrell
    • Harry
    Lusia Strus
    Lusia Strus
    • Sheila
    Stephen Eugene Walker
    • Bobby
    Mary Kay Cook
    Mary Kay Cook
    • Vanessa
    Larry Neumann Jr.
    Larry Neumann Jr.
    • Lenny
    Jennifer Morrison
    Jennifer Morrison
    • Samantha
    • (as Jenny Morrison)
    Richard Cotovsky
    Richard Cotovsky
    • Neighborhood Man
    Steve Rifkin
    • Kurt
    Chalon Williams
    • Adam
    Liza Weil
    Liza Weil
    • Debbie the Babysitter
    George Ivey
    • Security Guard
    Lisa Lewis
    • Debbie's Mother
    Mike Bacarella
    Mike Bacarella
    • Train Station Cop #1
      • David Koepp
      • Richard Matheson(novel "A Stir of Echoes")
      • David Koepp(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      In the scene where Tom gets angry after digging in the backyard, and kicks the bucket towards the wall, it was not supposed to hit and break the window. This was a "happy accident", and it was used in the film, as Kevin Bacon stayed in character, and continued the scene.
    • Goofs
      Digging in the basement he uses an air compressor when the Jack-Hammer is a Bosch Brute, an electric model.
    • Quotes

      Lisa: It doesn't surprise me that there's another woman. Of course, the fact that she's dead gives one pause.

    • Alternate versions
      On the DVD director's commentary, David Koepp states that for the home video release, the two scenes where words appear blurred on a theatre screen were blurred even more with digital effects. He states that this is because on video, what the text said was obvious well before it should be known to the audience.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Stir of Echoes/The Minus Man/Suger Town/Best Laid Plans/On the Ropes (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Nothing But The Shell
      Performed by Steve Wynn

      Written by Steve Wynn and Eric Ambel

      Courtesy of Zero Hour Records

    User reviews426

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    9/10
    Bacon 'Cooks' As An Unwilling Medium...
    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...
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    • Release date
      • September 10, 1999 (United States)
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      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Production company
      • Artisan Entertainment
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