What Lies Beneath (2000)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 67
Robert Zemeckis is unable to salvage an uncompelling and unoriginal film.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 18
Robert Zemeckis is unable to salvage an uncompelling and unoriginal film.
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In this supernatural thriller, a woman believes that a visitor from another dimension is trying to guide her into a sinister mystery. Feeling lonely after her daughter leaves home for college, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to sense that something is wrong in her house, and feels a spirit is trying to contact her. At first her husband Norman (Harrison Ford), a scientist doing research in genetics, attributes her paranormal beliefs to stress or possibly a nervous breakdown, and sends her to a
Jul 21, 2000 Wide
Jan 30, 2001
$155.0M
Dreamworks Distribution LLC
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Cast
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Harrison Ford
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Michelle Pfeiffer
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Diana Scarwid
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Miranda Otto
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James Remar
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Joe Morton
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Amber Valletta
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Victoria Bidewell
Beatrice -
Katharine Towne
Caitlin Spencer -
Ray Baker
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Mitch Carter
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Wendy Crewson
Elena -
Tom Dahlgren
Dean Templeton -
Moosie Drier
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Bridget Hoffman
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Donna Lynn Leavy
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Micole Mercurio
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Edie Mirman
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Sloane Shelton
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Daniel Zelman
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Rachel Singer
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Philece Sampler
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Iake Eissinmann
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Jennifer Tung
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David Cowgill
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Eliott Goretsky
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Newell Alexander
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Dennison Samaroo
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Donald Taylor
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Claudette Wells
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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (72) | DVD (30)
Essentially, it's claptrap.
Top CriticFord is top-billed, but it's Pfeiffer's movie and she's very good.
Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary.
Cross between Fatal Attraction, Poltergeist.
Is there anybody out there seriously interested in seeing Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer doing the nasty?
It's just gimmick all the way.
They could've cut 10 minutes out of the first hour easily...and it still might have been too slow.
If the ghost can go hunt for the villain by itself, why does it bother writing cryptic messages to strangers?
Offers nothing original.
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