What Lies Beneath

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  • Opened July 21, 2000 
  • 2 hr 6 min
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. More on child suitability

  • It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) betrayed his beautiful wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). But with Claire oblivious to the truth, Norman's life and marriage seem so perfect that when Claire tells him of hearing mysterious voices and seeing a young woman's image in their home, he dismisses her terror as delusion. Claire moves closer to the truth and it becomes clear that this apparition will not be dismissed, and has come back for Dr. Spencer and his beautiful wife. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Joe Morton
  • Director: Robert Zemeckis
  • Genres: Horror, Suspense/Thriller

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Chicago Tribune
| Michael Wilmington

A classy supernatural lady-in-distress thriller. Read full review

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Christian Science Monitor
| David Sterritt

A few scenes indulge in overstated hokum or thriller clichés, but Pfeiffer is first-rate and several sequences are suspenseful enough to deserve that overused adjective, Hitchcockian. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Bob Graham

Goes Hitchcock one better by imagining what it would be like if the master had the advantage of digital technology. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time. Read full review

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