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After New Orleans hospice worker Caroline answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux, a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet, presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any door in the house with the exception of one, which she claims she has never been able to open. But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic.Product Identifiers
ProducerDaniel Booker, Stacey Sher, Iain Softley, Michael Shamberg
EAN5050582532302
eBay Product ID (ePID)62877761
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ActorJoy Bryant, Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard
Film/TV TitleThe Skeleton Key
DirectorIain Softley
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageCastilian Spanish\Chinese\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Italian\Japanese\Korean\Norwegian\Portuguese\Swedish
Run Time100 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2007
FormatHD DVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Behind The Locked Door - Making THE SKELETON KEY\'Exploring Voodoo/Hoodoo' featurette\'Blues in the Bayou' featurette\Kate Hudson's Ghost Story\Commentary with Director Iain Softley, With Subtitles
GenreHorror/Occult, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationAfter New Orleans hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any door in the house with the exception of one, which she claims she has never been able to open. But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic. She soon discovers that the house harbours a dark secret one that Violet knows more about than she first admits. Breaking her string of lighthearted romantic comedies, Kate Hudson gives a performance that proves she's more than capable of playing a feisty damsel in distress. Ehren Kruger's (THE RING) script gives her some physically demanding scenes, while providing the audience with a steady string of effective jolts culminating in a SIXTH SENSE-style twist that few are likely to see coming. Louisiana's swampy, heavy atmosphere is literally a character in the film, while Gena Rowlands, at age 75, astounds once again with one of her most surprising roles.
ReviewsUncut - The performances are full-throttle, with Hudson as the most pig-headedly fearless heroine in years, making good on her ALMOST FAMOUS promise, Entertainment Weekly - A basic bayou thriller distinguished by a very self-conscious subversive streak
ScreenwriterEhren Kruger
Dubbing LanguagesEnglish\German\French\Italian\Japanese\Castilian Spanish
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleThe Skeleton Key
Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong violence and sustained menace
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- Jun 30, 2020
made my partner happy
this was a birthday gift for my partner who absolutely loves this movie so I figure I would get them there own copy along with Rosemary baby Phantasm, the exorcist not sure the fascination not my cup of teaVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
