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The Awakening
Set in London in 1921, Florence Cathcart, author of the popular book 'Seeing Through Ghosts,' has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the ';missing'; begin to show themselves.
1965, London, England, UK
1953, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
21 March 1974, Oxford, England, UK
9 April 1999, England, UK
2 October 1968, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
1965, UK
August 31, 2012
[Rebecca Hall] captures Florence's flinty intelligence and the vulnerability that emerges as she slowly discovers the school's dark secrets.
August 17, 2012
An enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story in the vein of "The Others" and "The Orphanage."
August 17, 2012
When these sudden surprises work, as in "A Beautiful Mind" or "The Others," you're too stunned to swallow that next handful of popcorn; when they don't, you're tempted to throw your whole box at the screen.
February 01, 2013
The Awakening is a handsome, well-acted thriller with a script that's never cringe-inducing. So why did it sneak its way onto home video with no fanfare?
June 09, 2013
a ghost story that wants to be more than just a ghost story, but in the process of trying to be a movie that transcends a genre, it insults the genre
August 26, 2015
A concise little old-school British ghost story, and I say there's always room for a few more of those.
August 30, 2012
Whatever.
February 11, 2013
The Awakening glides ghost-like through its story, laying its own elaborate traps along the way.
August 23, 2012
The cast is anchored by two wonderful actresses: Imelda Staunton and Rebecca Hall, whose talents are squandered on this lackluster horror drama.
August 17, 2012
A dull British import that never lives up to the pretensions of its period setting.
August 30, 2012
Though the story spirals a little out of control in the film's final scenes, "The Awakening" offers the low-key pleasures of an old-fashioned thriller and a lovely central performance.
March 08, 2017
If you're in the mood for some serious spooks with solid acting, The Awakening is worth checking out; but I wouldn't go out of my way if you're looking for anything more than that.