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Title: What Lies Beneath

Date Viewed: 7/22/00

Details:

Harrison Ford

Michele Pfeiffer

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Score: +

The Review: Long, but well-paced, supernatural thriller. In one sense, this is a character study of a woman who seems to be slowly going mad -- a loving wife in a good marriage, disturbed and a bit lonely after her daughter leaves for college, snooping on her new neighbors, imagining disturbances in a spooky house, left on her own devices by a husband whose focus on his research is (familiarly) borderline monomaniacal... Somewhere in there is a bit of amnesia, a bit of convenient forgetfulness. Contains more than a satisfactory number of twists and turns, red herrings and pickled herrings, so to speak.

Some of the technology has progressed a bit beyond the scripted plot elements; watch for a mobile phone with a peculiarly sharp cell threshold.

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