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The Mothman Prophecies | 124856__mothman_l
BUGGED OUT Gere sees dead people
The Mothman Prophecies: Melissa Moseley

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Release Date: Jan 25, 2002; Rated: PG-13; Video Release Date: Jun 04, 2002; Genres: Sci-fi, Thriller; With: Richard Gere and Laura Linney; Distributor: Screen Gems Inc.
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By Monica Mehta
Monica Mehta
Monica Mehta is a reporter for Entertainment Weekly

''All kinds of things exist all around us that we never even see,'' says Alan Bates, playing a paranormal expert. Taking that not unpopular belief and running with it, The Mothman Prophecies, director Mark Pellington's supernatural thriller, explores the connection between preternatural prescience and human destiny. Gere is a newspaper reporter who loses his wife after a car accident. Years later, he is inexplicably drawn to a town in which people have been seeing the same giant mothlike image that haunted his wife before her death. But it's not just another fright-and-flight flick. Pellington's camera expertly creates a bone-chilling atmosphere of doom, and the climax -- which ties up the loose ends -- will leave you satisfied as well as spooked.


Posted Jun 04, 2002
 

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