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What Lies Beneath (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 119 Fresh: 54  Rotten:65 Average Rating: 5.5/10
 
Consensus: Robert Zemeckis is unable to salvage an uncompelling and unoriginal film.
 

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] terror/violence, sensuality and brief language

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Theatrical Release: Jul 21, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $155,018,556

Synopsis: Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a... Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a beautiful home on the water in Vermont. But what lies beneath this idyllic existence are secrets that will rip everything apart. Dr. Spencer is an award-winning scientist whose work is threatening to consume his life; meanwhile, his wife is trying to deal with empty-nest syndrome now that her beloved daughter has gone off to college. Strange things start happening around the house, and Claire starts believing that the man next door murdered his wife and that the wife is trying to contact her from beyond the grave. Dr. Spencer is worried that Claire needs psychological help; he refuses to believe that their house is haunted. But as more and more dangerous events unfold, a frightening truth threatens to destroy everything. Robert Zemeckis's modern-day ghost story trembles with threatening close-ups, a powerful musical score--and lots of terror. And it does for bathtubs what Alfred Hitchcock did for showers. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid, Joe Morton, James Remar

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Clark Gregg
Story: Sarah Kernochan, Clark Gregg
Producer: Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis
Composer: Alan Silvestri

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 9, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Lenticular O-Sleeve
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Zemeckis - Director, Steve Starkey - Producer, Jack Rapke - Producer
  • Making-of - 1. HBO First Look: CONSTRUCTING A THRILLER
  • Trailers
  • Parental Lock

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Production Notes
  • Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
  • Production Art

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It's just gimmick all the way.

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Joe Lozito
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5/10

They could've cut 10 minutes out of the first hour easily...and it still might have been too slow.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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C-

If the ghost can go hunt for the villain by itself, why does it bother writing cryptic messages to strangers?

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
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2.5/4

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Judith Egerton
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Eugene Novikov
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