No rest for the wicked.
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
HorrorComedydaughtersmall townmothersheriffjudgefuneralwidowfbiarchitectsupernaturalpoltergeisthell
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Character
Contemporary, unpretentious, meticulous and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
23 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Formalists.
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Cast
- Michael J. FoxFrank Bannister
- Trini AlvaradoLucy Lynskey
- Peter DobsonRay Lynskey
- John AstinThe Judge
- Jeffrey CombsMilton Dammers
- Dee WallacePatricia Bradley
- Jake BuseyJohnny Bartlett
- Chi McBrideCyrus
- Jim FyfeStuart
- Troy EvansSheriff Perry
Crew
- Peter JacksonDirector
- Peter JacksonScreenplay
- Fran WalshScreenplay
- John BlickDirector of Photography
- Alun BollingerDirector of Photography
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
- Jamie SelkirkEditor
- Peter JacksonProducer
- Jamie SelkirkProducer
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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