What Lies Beneath
WHAT LIES BENEATH (15)
D: Robert Zemeckis
20th Century Fox/Imagemover (Steve Starkey, Robert
Zemeckis & Jack Rapke)
US 2000
130 mins
Thriller
W: Clark Gregg
DP: Don Burgess
Ed: Arthur Schmidt
Mus: Alan Silvestri
Harrison Ford (Dr. Norman Spencer), Michelle Pfeiffer
(Claire Spencer), Diana Scarwid (Jody), Miranda Otto (Mary Feur), James Remar (Warren Feur), Joe Morton (Dr. Drayton)
Whilst taking a break shooting 2000's Cast Away (qv),
director Robert Zemekis filmed this Hitchcockian-style thriller, and with all due respect, it feels like a bit on the side.
Michelle Pfeiffer stars as wife to Harrison Ford's
scientist, a woman plagued with visions of a ghost haunting her home.
It's almost like an American remake of Les Diabolques (qv)
but that wouldn't be a fair assessment, the American remake of Les Diaboliques was absolutely atrocious. This just feels like, what they'd call in the 1950's, a second feature. Not bad, but
not particularly memorable either. Michelle Pfeiffer puts on a good show, but Harrison Ford feels very miscast here.
6/10
