What Lies Beneath (2000)

De briljante wetenschapper Norman Spencer maakt zich zorgen over zijn echtgenote Claire. Sinds hun enige dochter Caitlin op kamers is gegaan, hoort Claire stemmen en ziet ze voortdurend een gezicht van een jonge vrouw gereflecteerd in het water. Claire vermoedt dat de bizarre verschijnselen alles te maken hebben met de nieuwe buren. Ze verdenkt Warren Feur er zelfs van zijn echtgenote Mary te hebben vermoord. Haar geest zou nu in Claires huis ronddwalen. Voor Norman gaat dit te ver en hij stuurt zijn echtgenote naar een therapeut. Die raadt Claire aan om in contact te treden met de geest...

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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 gon...
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e 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.
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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 psychiatrist (Joe Morton) who puts no more stock in Claire's stories than does Norman. While Claire's contention that so...
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meone or something sinister is afoot leads her down a number of blind alleys, in time she becomes convinced that the mysterious happenings at her home are somehow connected to the disappearance of a woman who was a student at the nearby college -- and bore a striking resemblance to Claire. What Lies Beneath marked the debut of screenwriter Clark Gregg, whose script is based on a story by himself and Sarah Kernochan; the supporting cast includes Diana Scarwid as Claire's best friend Jody, and James Remar and Miranda Otto as a contentious couple living next door.
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