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Starring	Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joe Morton, Miranda Otto
Director	Robert Zemeckis
Genres	Horror, Thriller

What Lies Beneath

Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a beautiful home on the water in Vermont. But what lies beneath this idyllic existence are secrets that will rip everything apart.
Dr. Spencer is an award-winning scientist whose work is threatening to consume his life; meanwhile, his wife is trying to deal with empty-nest syndrome now that her beloved daughter has gone off to college. Strange things start happening around the house, and Claire starts believing that the man next door murdered his wife and that the wife is trying to contact her from beyond the grave. Dr. Spencer is worried that Claire needs psychological help; he refuses to believe that their house is haunted. But as more and more dangerous events unfold, a frightening truth threatens to destroy everything.
Robert Zemeckis's modern-day ghost story trembles with threatening close-ups, a powerful musical score--and lots of terror. And it does for bathtubs what Alfred Hitchcock did for showers.

Starring	Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joe Morton, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Diana Scarwid, Ray Baker
Director	Robert Zemeckis
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 5 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers
Genres	Horror, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released	Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 17 Sep 2001

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- "What lies beneath WHAT LIES BENEATH are the good bones of Alfred Hitchcock....[Pfeiffer is] electrically alive..." -- Rating: B
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- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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  Zemeckis does Hitchcock!
  
  Zemeckis slotted in this one between Castaway shoots (while Tom Hanks was dieting) and as an exercise in borrowing Hitchcock's style it works very well as a... read more »
  
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  - 18 Nov 2004 at 07:49
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  This could have been a really good thriller...
  
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  ... unfortunately, it is not. Two great leading actors, a lot of suspense, a good story line... well, until the ending.
  
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  What Lies Beneath
  
  This will keep you on the edge of your seat, a great story and the ending, well you dont expect. Harrisin Ford brilliant as usuall.
  
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  - 14 Sep 2010 at 16:49
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  Brilliant!!!
  
  An unmistakeable Zemekis production with a touch of Hitcock. We have seen him draw us in with Back to the Future and Forest Gump. Creating a reality where ... read more »
  
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  Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a ...