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After New Orleans hospice worker Caroline answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux, a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet, presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any door in the house with the exception of one, which she claims she has never been able to open. But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic.

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ProducerDaniel Booker, Stacey Sher, Iain Softley, Michael Shamberg

EAN5050582532302

eBay Product ID (ePID)62877761

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ActorJoy Bryant, Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard

Film/TV TitleThe Skeleton Key

DirectorIain Softley

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageCastilian Spanish\Chinese\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Italian\Japanese\Korean\Norwegian\Portuguese\Swedish

Run Time100 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2007

FormatHD DVD

FeaturesWidescreen, Behind The Locked Door - Making THE SKELETON KEY\'Exploring Voodoo/Hoodoo' featurette\'Blues in the Bayou' featurette\Kate Hudson's Ghost Story\Commentary with Director Iain Softley, With Subtitles

GenreHorror/Occult, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Additional InformationAfter New Orleans hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any door in the house with the exception of one, which she claims she has never been able to open. But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic. She soon discovers that the house harbours a dark secret one that Violet knows more about than she first admits. Breaking her string of lighthearted romantic comedies, Kate Hudson gives a performance that proves she's more than capable of playing a feisty damsel in distress. Ehren Kruger's (THE RING) script gives her some physically demanding scenes, while providing the audience with a steady string of effective jolts culminating in a SIXTH SENSE-style twist that few are likely to see coming. Louisiana's swampy, heavy atmosphere is literally a character in the film, while Gena Rowlands, at age 75, astounds once again with one of her most surprising roles.

ReviewsUncut - The performances are full-throttle, with Hudson as the most pig-headedly fearless heroine in years, making good on her ALMOST FAMOUS promise, Entertainment Weekly - A basic bayou thriller distinguished by a very self-conscious subversive streak

ScreenwriterEhren Kruger

Dubbing LanguagesEnglish\German\French\Italian\Japanese\Castilian Spanish

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleThe Skeleton Key

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong violence and sustained menace