Stir kept me interested the entire time, but it was bit predictable.
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02/14/01
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Stir of Echoes (1999)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:69
Rotten:34
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Kevin Bacon's acting is so genuine that it's creepy and director David Keopp knows how to create true suspense.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon), husband and father of a precocious young son, finds his blue-collar Chicago existence altered after he is hypnotized at a neighborhood party. What started as a diversion... [More]
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn
Director: David Koepp
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Reviews for Stir of Echoes
It's good, tense fun from sophomore director David Koepp.
01/01/00
After a compelling first half, the main echoes that this ghost yarn stirs up are of other movies.
01/01/00
Top CriticStir of Echoes falls flat during its final third when more prosaic issues of homicide and revenge enter into the story, but right up to that point it manages to sink its chilly fingers deep in the meat of your mind.
01/01/00
Second-time director David Koepp steers clear of silly pyrotechnics and empty show as he anchors his supernatural thriller in Tom's daily rituals, employing the racket of city life and intelligent sound edits to crank up the tension.
04/17/01
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07/14/07
Stir of Echoes might have worked just fine a few decades ago, but it now seems too simply schematic to spook us as much as it wants to.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Rivetingly haunting.
01/01/00
Stir Of Echoes is a scary, intelligent ghost story and thriller.
12/10/07
The movie that begins with a disquieting whimper of fear ends in a loud, improbable bang.
01/01/00
[A] serious, atmospheric, character-driven supernatural drama.
12/10/07
Top CriticKevin Bacon stars in one of his best performances!
01/01/00
Top CriticIt has enough smarts to scare us, Sixth Sense or not.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's The Sixth Sense with genuine scares.
01/01/00
The story compensates for any discomfort because we are eventually given the light with which to understand, accept, and reconcile what we’ve seen.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
As the movie unwinds, it quickly loses its eerie quality and settles in to a rather average who-done-it mystery.
01/01/00
A creepy thriller that gives Bacon his best role yet.
01/01/00
I did receive a few chills and some kicks from it.
05/26/06
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