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Friday, January 11, 2008
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R | 1hr 45min | Drama
Produced by Alvaro Augustin, Joaquín Padro, Mar Targarona, Guillermo del Toro
Written by Sergio G. Sánchez
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Montserrat Carulla, Mabel Rivera
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Laura purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.    hide

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01-20-2008
Milan
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This movie is similar to the The Sixth Sense, in that it takes a difficult subject and presents it well.
The acting was excellent. The story was excellent. The director did an excellent job in presenting the story. It kept you on your edge ... both thanks to the special effects, as well as keeping you wondering what it was all about, and how it was going to end. And it did all this without becoming too confusing or overly complicated. In other words, the plot flowed very well.
One of the best parts of the movie is how well it brings into relationship two points of view: reality, such as we know it day-to-day vs. the unknown.
The story is complete from the start to the end. Then ending leaves you with a sense of completion.


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