Audrey Rose (film)

Infobox Film
name = Audrey Rose


caption = Audrey Rose promotional movie poster
director = Robert Wise
producer = Frank De Felitta
Joe Wizan
writer = Frank De Felitta
starring = Marsha Mason
Anthony Hopkins
John Beck
Susan Swift
music = Michael Small
cinematography = Victor J. Kemper
editing = Carl Kress
distributor = United Artists
released = April 6, 1977
runtime = 113 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget = Unknown
amg_id = A3295
imdb_id = 0075704

"Audrey Rose" is a 1977 horror film directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins. It was based on the novel of the same title by Frank De Felitta. The book had a sequel, "For Love of Audrey Rose", which was not filmed. The original music score was composed by Michael Small.

Taglines

*"A haunting vision of reincarnation."
*"Suppose a stranger told you your daughter was his daughter in another life? Suppose you believed him? Suppose it was TRUE?"

Plot

A woman and her five-year old daughter, Audrey Rose Hoover, are killed in a car accident. Two minutes later, Ivy is born nearby to Janice and Bill Templeton.

Years later, when Ivy is almost eleven, she begins having nightmares. A stranger, Elliot Hoover, visits the Templeton family and tells them about his daughter and wife. He believes that his little girl was reincarnated in Ivy.

Hoover is able to calm Ivy's recurrent nightmares down by calling her Audrey Rose, but after he abducts her, he is arrested. His subsequent attempts to argue a case for reincarnation at his trial became a "cause célèbre".

A leit motif in the novel/movie is the Hindu belief of reincarnation. There are constant references to Hinduism, of the belief that the human soul does not die, but is immortal. The movie ends with a quotation from the Bhagvad Gita -one of Hinduism's holiest books.

Main cast

* Marsha Mason - Janice Templeton
* Anthony Hopkins - Elliot Hoover
* John Beck - Bill Templeton
* Susan Swift - Ivy Templeton
* Norman Lloyd - Dr. Steven Lipscomb
* John Hillerman - Prosecutor Scott Velie
* Robert Walden - Brice Mack

References

External links

* [http://www.afi.com/wise/films/audrey_rose/audrey.html Official Homepage]
* [http://www.dreamstarlets.com/lobby/main/moviess/ssaudreyrose.html Pictures at Childstarlets]
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* [http://www.filmweb.pl/Film?id=3966 Filmweb entry]