Audrey Rose

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Audrey Rose

PG

1977

1h 53m

Horror

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Husband and wife Janice (Marsha Mason) and Bill Templeton (John Beck) lead a pleasant life, residing in New York and sending their daughter, Ivy (Susan Swift), to a good school. Things change, though, when the odd Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) arrives and tells the couple that, after having spent time in India, he believes Ivy is the reincarnated spirit of his daughter, who died years earlier. The Templetons scoff, but ensuing supernatural events soon turn their lives upside down.

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Tony Rayns

Time Out

06/24/2006

Wise's film is overlong, sometimes over-emphatic, and it has a staggeringly misjudged ending. But it's also notable for centering on the emotional plight of the paranormal malarkey.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

07/29/2005

C-

A possession thriller...that replaces Christian claptrap for Hindi hokum.

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Steve Warren

The Barb (Atlanta)

05/09/2023

The acting of Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins and debuting Susan Swift are the major assets (poor John Beck is good, but out of his league). The story is intriguing all the way, even if it's never resolved.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

11/12/2022

2.5/4

It turns absurd in the second hour, starting with a trial in which the notion of reincarnation is placed on the stand -- next to this, even Santa’s courtroom appearance in Miracle on 34th Street looks as grounded in reality as the Nuremberg trials.

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

11/08/2022

3/4

Superb performances from Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins help ground the supernatural story in genuine human emotion.

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

11/07/2022

While some of the acting is overwrought and the story occasionally grates, this choice adds extra layers to what is a fascinating, intelligent and thoughtful psychological drama.

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CodyZamboni Z

Oct 4

Watchable quasi thriller, A lot more emotional than I thought it would be, i admit I teared up a few times when girl Ivy cries for her daddy, and when Anthony Hopkin tears up, There are some creepy moments in the first half hour, but soon turns academic, lecturing the audience on reincarnation via a court trial, That said, the performances sell this movie, especially Marsha Mason Hopkins and Susan Smith as Ivy. Their plight is gripping and heartfelt, The ending is bittersweet.

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Roger R

Jul 13

The book is very good with interesting education regarding Hinduism and reincarnation. It is not really a horror story. The movie, however, deletes many of the levels in the book's narrative, squashing it down to a basic rip-off of The Exorcist at times and family drama at others. It all ends in a courtroom in both mediums of entertainment, with the book coming across as an "advertisement" for Hinduism. The movie, though, is just exploitation and sensationalism to (at the time of release) sell tickets. Good cast, fine direction, but mostly mediocre. Read the book instead (or look up reincarnation and Hinduism on google).

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Farah R

@Farah 10/25/2024

Audrey Rose is a discombobulating mess of religion and the paranormal, a peculiar film with an even weirder concept that never settles on a clear message. Anthony Hopkins and the other cast members did a great job making their acting very convincing, but it couldn't save this psychological thriller from foundering.

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Sam A

10/11/2024

She dies in the end. Ruined movie.

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Daphne C

@dafodil00 09/17/2024

This movie creeped me out when I was younger and now the questions linger…. Big questions about our mortality and where we go when we die.

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jimmy b

07/25/2024

When the telephone rings, which it does quite often, you know bad news and bad acting is in store. However, Marsha Mason makes an attempt to save the film with copius tears at times.

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Synopsis

Husband and wife Janice (Marsha Mason) and Bill Templeton (John Beck) lead a pleasant life, residing in New York and sending their daughter, Ivy (Susan Swift), to a good school. Things change, though, when the odd Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) arrives and tells the couple that, after having spent time in India, he believes Ivy is the reincarnated spirit of his daughter, who died years earlier. The Templetons scoff, but ensuing supernatural events soon turn their lives upside down.

Director: Robert Wise
Producer: Joe Wizan, Frank De Felitta
Screenwriter: Frank De Felitta
Production Co: Sterobcar Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 53m

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