Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her father's new girlfriend and ghastly visions of her dead mother.Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her father's new girlfriend and ghastly visions of her dead mother.Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her father's new girlfriend and ghastly visions of her dead mother.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Daniel Bristol
- Samuel
- (as Danny Bristol)
Alf Humphreys
- Priest
- (as Alfred E. Humphreys)
C.A. Fraser Bain
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaElizabeth Banks took inspiration for her character of Rachel from Rebecca De Mornay's performance in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). On the role of the character, she stated: "It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways, so that when you go back through the movie you can see that."
- GoofsThe graves on the headstones of the Wright children have the death date as 1986, but later when the girls are looking at the computer, Alex says the story is from 1996.
- Quotes
Dr. Silberling: We survive by remembering. But sometimes we survive by forgetting.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: The Informers/The Soloist/Tyson (2009)
- SoundtracksMy Party
Written by Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill, Jared Followill and Matthew Followill
Performed by Kings of Leon
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
By Arrangement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Featured review
Completely fooled me
After the death of her mother in a fire, a girl returns home from the psychiatric ward to her father's house, where she rubs his pushy girlfriend up the wrong way while piecing together the events of that fateful night ...
As Maurice Moss would say, egg and my face are in perfect alignment. I only realised when reading the IMDb reviews afterward that this is a remake of a film I'd already seen. Plus at 65 mins I'd written off the story as a spooked up Nancy Drew caper, albeit produced with plenty of style and quality.
The last 10 minutes were a shock to me, and this is coming from a fan of Mulholland Dr. I was looking for clues, assuming the baddie couldn't be the obvious one, but got tired thinking about the year 1996 and fastened my seatbelt to settle in for a routine landing. Now I'm going to have to rewatch to see how skillfully the clues were laid. And rewatch the original too.
Almost everything is quality - performances, direction, editing, cinematography - except the music is just OK, a bit cliche. And I have doubts about the writing. While the dialogue between the sisters is often impressive, the father's character is frustratingly dull, and even the twist ending can't change him. Plus I'm not convinced the main character is psychologically true. I'll see when I get round to it again.
Overall: unexpectedly mixed experience.
As Maurice Moss would say, egg and my face are in perfect alignment. I only realised when reading the IMDb reviews afterward that this is a remake of a film I'd already seen. Plus at 65 mins I'd written off the story as a spooked up Nancy Drew caper, albeit produced with plenty of style and quality.
The last 10 minutes were a shock to me, and this is coming from a fan of Mulholland Dr. I was looking for clues, assuming the baddie couldn't be the obvious one, but got tired thinking about the year 1996 and fastened my seatbelt to settle in for a routine landing. Now I'm going to have to rewatch to see how skillfully the clues were laid. And rewatch the original too.
Almost everything is quality - performances, direction, editing, cinematography - except the music is just OK, a bit cliche. And I have doubts about the writing. While the dialogue between the sisters is often impressive, the father's character is frustratingly dull, and even the twist ending can't change him. Plus I'm not convinced the main character is psychologically true. I'll see when I get round to it again.
Overall: unexpectedly mixed experience.
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- Apparition
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- Gross US & Canada
- $28,596,818
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,325,824
- Feb 1, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $41,633,384
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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