The Awakening

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The Awakening (2011)

R 08/17/2011 (US) Horror, Thriller, Mystery 1h 47m

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Sometimes dead does not mean gone.

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In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Nick Murphy

Director, Screenplay
Stephen Volk

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Rebecca Hall

Florence Cathcart
Dominic West

Robert Mallory
Imelda Staunton

Maud Hill
Isaac Hempstead-Wright

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Lucy Cohu

Constance Strickland
Cal MacAninch

Freddie Strickland
John Shrapnel

Reverend Hugh Purslow
Diana Kent

Harriet Cathcart
Richard Durden

Alexander Cathcart
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A review by John Chard

75%

Written by John Chard on October 12, 2015

There's no place on earth people understand loneliness better than here.

The Awakening is directed by Nick Murphy and Murphy co-writes the screenplay with Stephen Volk. It stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Shaun Dooley and Joseph Mawle. Music is by Daniel Pemberton and cinematography by Eduard Grau.

Britain, post World War 1, and Florence Cathcart (Hall) makes a living as an exposer of charlatan spiritualists, a debunker of ghost sightings. When she receives a request from school master Robert Mallory (West) to investigate the supernatural events a... read the rest.

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