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The Awakening (2011)
August 17, 20111h 47mEN
6.4
1.5K votes
Overview
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Director
Nick MurphyWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$4.8M
Revenue
$6.9M
Production Companies
BBC FilmLipsync ProductionsCreative ScotlandOrigin PicturesStudioCanal
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User Reviews
John Chard
7.5There'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…
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