Audrey Rose

PG

1977

1 hr. 53 min.

Horror

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57%

21 Reviews

Tomatometer

43%

5,000+ Ratings

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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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Logan D

A small family is stalked by a man who claims the daughter is the reincarnation of his own child. The mother cries a lot. Mason is pretty much wasted in this film but she's still an asset to the film, as is Hopkins. I found the film thoughtful but subtle. Very old fashioned, I think, even for its time.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/23/23

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William M

Apparently, I liked this movie somewhat more than either the critics or general members of the audience. Sure, it has it's weaknesses, particularly the final 20 minutes or so, but I thought there was still enough here to hold my interest for most of the film. A young Anthony Hopkins was compelling.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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marco b

Audrey Rose is a strange one, half the film is sort of like the exorcist, the other half is like a courtroom drama. Overall, a well-acted film but there is no cohesion. A girl is believed to be the reincarnated daughter of a grieving widower; despite her nightmares her current family refuse to believe it. Anthony Hopkins stars.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Frank De Felitta — who also wrote the sceenplay, as well as The Entity and Dark Night of the Scarecrow — this is the story of Bill and Janice Templeton, who are being hounded by a mysterious stranger who just wants to meet their daughter Ivy. That man is Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins), a lost soul whose wife and daughter — Audrey Rose — died eleven years ago on the night that Ivy was born. He believes that she is his daughter. Man, the 70s, huh? This movie takes that decades love of reincarnation and the occult — before we backtracked into the Satanic Panic of the 80s — and concocts a world where Higgins — John Hillerman plays a prosecutor — must deal with holy men claiming past lives are possible and hypnosis bringing Ivy back to her last incarnation. And then it ends with a quote from the Bhagavad-Gita? Ah man. What a decade. Poor Robert Wise. He had to follow this one up with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He made much better movies before that, like The Curse of the Cat People, West Side Story, The Haunting, The Sound of Music and The Andromeda Strain. However, as goofy as this gets, I kind of admire this movie. It's cornball psychic hokum, but the best kind of carny BS — because it believes its own BS. By the way, Brooke Shields tried out for this movie and even had the claim that she posed for the art of the paperback cover, which wasn't BS. As for De Felitta, he tried some BS to sell his book sequel For Love of Audrey Rose to the rubes, claiming that he'd heard his five-year-old son suddenly be able to play ragtime music on the piano.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

I found the Audrey/Ivy character to be super annoying.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Jesse D

Feels like a long, poorly written, poorly acted advertisement for a new age religion.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/21

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Robert Wise

Director

Marsha Mason

Janice Templeton

Anthony Hopkins

Elliot Hoover

John Beck

Bill Templeton

Susan Swift

Ivy Templeton

Norman Lloyd

Dr. Steven Lipscomb

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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.

Jun 24, 2006

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

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

Rated: C-

Jul 29, 2005

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Steve Warren

The Barb (Atlanta)

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.

May 9, 2023

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

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.

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 12, 2022

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

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

Rated: 3/4

Nov 8, 2022

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

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.

Nov 7, 2022

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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
Screenwriter: Frank De Felitta
Production Co: Sterobcar Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2017

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