The Mothman Prophecies

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Prophecies</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="501" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 146 WIDTH="495"><div> <IMG SRC="12ae608c0.jpg" border=0 width="96" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000648X0/reelmoviecriticc"> The Mothman Prophecies on DVD</A>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> .</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="575"><div> The Mothman Prophecies *** (PG-13)   </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Reviewed By Pam Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> Do you see what I see?</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> John Klein: Richard Gere </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Sgt. Connie Parker: Laura Linney  </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Mary Klein: Debra Messing </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  Gordon Smallwood: Will Patton </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Alexander Leek: Alan Bates </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div>  Director: Mark Pellington</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: Mysterious sightings in a small West Virginia town attract the attention of a big city newspaper reporter.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Jack Klein (Richard Gere) is a hard-hitting newsman for the Washington Post. He and his wife Mary (Debra Messing) are happy at the prospect of buying a beautiful old home, until they are in an automobile accident. Mary regains consciousness in the hospital and tells Jack that she swerved the car to avoid hitting a large winged creature that appeared in the headlights. "You didn't see it," she says to Jack. She begins making disturbing drawings of what she saw. The accident reveals a deadly tumor in Mary's head and she dies, leaving the pages of preternatural sketches at her bedside.</div> <bR> <div> Two years pass, Jack remains wedded to his work and while driving out of town to cover an assignment he's guided off course in the middle of the night. The electronics on his car fail and it stalls out completely; he's stranded on a deserted highway and when he knocks on the door of a farmhouse, he's greeted with a shotgun, brandished by a disheveled man (Will Patton). </div> <bR> <div> Holding Jack at gun point Gordon Smallwood (Patton) tells a frightening tale to Jack and the local police sergeant Connie Parker (Laura Linney). Sgt. Parker reveals to Jack that several townspeople in this small community of Point Pleasant, West Virginia have reported seeing strange figures, tall and winged, and others have experienced mysterious bleeding eyes and ears. The descriptions match Mary's drawings. Jack decides to stick around.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: <I><B>The Mothman Prophecies </B></I>is based on a book by John A. Keel, which told of actual events in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-67. Dramatic license is taken, of course, but the important parts, such as the climatic moments, are accurately portrayed. You'll be reminded of <I><B>The Sixth Sense</B></I> and <I><B>The Others</B></I> as the supernatural intervenes and you determine what's real and what's not…or possibly not. Alan Bates is on hand as Alexander Leek, a professor who has done extensive research on the phenomenon of these creatures who begin to appear to people when some major, usually catastrophic event is about to take place.</div> <bR> <div> Richard Gere gives a fine performance as a man who's just not sure but he has to know, after all he is a reporter. Laura Linney exudes the same savvy and earnest intelligence she had in <I><B>You Can Count On Me. </B></I>This is a turn to the mystical side of life<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >-</FONT>Do you believe?</div> <div> Quick…what's that out of the corner of your eye?</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div>   Rated PG-13 (terror, some sexuality and language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Pam Singleton © 2002</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>pam@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Richard Gere: <I><B>Dr. T and the Women</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Laura Linney: <I><B>You Can Count on Me</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="286"><div> Will Patton: <I><B>Remember the Titans</B></I>, The Agency (TV)</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Debra Messing: Will & Grace (TV)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="286"><div> Alan Bates: <I><B>Gosford Park</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Mark Pellington: Arlington Road</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>