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Jul 21, 2000 · "What Lies Beneath" opens with an hour or so of standard thriller scare tactics, done effectively, and then plops into a morass of absurdity. Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary.
Jul 21, 2000 · Rated: 4.5/5 Dec 30, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews It's ultimately impossible not to label What Lies Beneath as a missed opportunity that could and should have been...
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With What Lies Beneath, Zemeckis finally combines his fondness for fright flicks with the character-driven drama of his best work, and the result is one doozy of a ghost story.
What Lies Beneath is a 2000 supernatural horror thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. A women start witnessing disturbing supernatural activities after moving to the old house of her husband, soon she discovers a shocking past about her husband.
Jul 21, 2000 · What Lies Beneath: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto, James Remar. The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
While it received generally mixed reviews from critics, who praised Pfeiffer's performance while criticizing the screenplay, the film was a box-office success, grossing $291.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of the year.
Jul 20, 2020 · What Lies Beneath, released in theaters 20 years ago this month, is a supernatural horror thriller that Robert Zemeckis made in the middle of directing Cast Away while waiting for Tom Hanks...
Jul 21, 2000 · What Lies Beneath. Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 35 Critic Reviews. 51. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 78 User Ratings. 6.7. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review.
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. As it unwinds, What Lies becomes both masterful and preposterous. Goes Hitchcock one better by imagining what it would be like if the master had the advantage of digital technology.
Norman Spencer (Ford, slothful) and his wife Claire (Pfeiffer) are so happily in love in their lakeside mansion that you know something dreadful's going to occu.
