Godsend
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| Directed by | Nick Hamm |
| Produced by | Marc Butan Sean O'Keefe Cathy Schulman |
| Written by | Mark Bomback |
| Starring | Greg Kinnear Rebecca Romijn Cameron Bright and Robert De Niro |
| Music by | Brian Tyler |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
| Release date(s) | April 30, 2004 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Godsend is a 2004 horror/drama movie, and is directed by Nick Hamm. The score is by Brian Tyler.
As a part of the movie's promotional campaign, Lions Gate Films set up a website for the fictional Godsend Institute in the movie, which claimed to be able to resurrect the dead. Lions Gate were forced to change the website informing people that is was only an advertisement, due to the large number of inquiries asking if they really could bring back dead family members.
The movie was poorly received by critics, and is noted for implausible plot devices.
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[edit] Plot
The film starts with the Duncans celebrating their sons 8th birthday. He is then killed by a vehicle that is thrown off course by a cyclist that comes barelling into the street. It then cuts to them burying their son, and being confronted by a doctor who claims that he can bring their son back by cloning him. They reluctantly agree to this because it is morally unacceptable and also highly illegal. Their son gets cloned and everything is fine until he reaches his 8th birthday. That night he has a violent night terror, and runs around the house screaming. They speak to the doctor who explains to them that there was a chance things might go wrong after he reaches the age where he died. He continues to have these night terrors, until they begin to become visions, and he starts having them when he's wide awake.
Then a boy who was bullying Adam is found dead, after what appears to be a drowning. But it is shown that Adam killed him with a hammer. Adam's dad, Paul, decides that he must go and find out what is really happening with his son because he suspects that his son killed the boy. He is driving home with Adam in the car when he starts to have another vision. In this one he can see a school and a boy standing over a bin setting it on fire in one of the classrooms, he also sees a woman screaming and a hammer in a pool of blood, and in his dream he walks up to a mirror to see that his relfection is that of another boy's, one whose face is badly damaged. As Paul and his wife try to talk to their son he refuses to answer, telling them that he's not Adam, he is Zachary. Paul asks him where he is, and Adam tells him he's at a school and gives him the name of the school.
Paul finds the school and goes to investigate. He sees that it has been destroyed by a fire. When he asks if anyone knows a Zachary no-one can tell him anything. He goes into the school and finds a picture which is identical to the one his son has drawn. He looks on it and finds Zachary's last name. After looking around for a while he finally finds someone who knows about him. It was his old nanny. She tells Paul that Zachary was a deranged boy, and when he was eight he burnt down his school while everyone was inside. It is never made clear whether anyone died from this. She decided, after learning that he did this, to kill him, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. The same night that she tried to kill him, he killed his mother by beating her to death with a hammer, then he set fire to his house, killing himself. Paul works out that Zachary was the son of the Doctor who cloned their son, and that he has put his son's DNA into their son while cloning him, meaning that he has a split personality.
Meanwhile Adam has found the old pictures of himself, prior to his cloning, this makes him snap, his mind being completely taken over by Zachary. He then attempts to kill his mother in the same way that Zachary did, but is stopped by Paul, and returns to normal.
It then cuts to them in a new house, trying to start a new life. When Adam is left alone in his new room he hears something in the closet. He walks up and opens it, and there is nothing inside. He shuts the door and turns his back, then a mottled, burnt hand grabs him and pulls him into the cupboard, signifying that Zachary has taken over him again. His dad walks back into the room, and noticing something wrong with his son asks him what's wrong with him. He tells him that nothing is, smiles creepily, and the film ends.
[edit] Cast
- Greg Kinnear — Paul Duncan
- Rebecca Romijn — Jessie Duncan
- Robert De Niro — Richard Wells
- Cameron Bright — Adam Duncan
- Merwin Mondesir — Maurice, Young Thug
- Sava Drayton — Young Thug #2
- Jake Simons — Dan Sandler
- Elle Downs — Clara Sandler
- Edie Inksetter — Footlocker Cashier
- Raoul Bhaneja — Samir Miklat
- Jenny Levine — Sandra Shaw
- Thomas Chambers — Jordan Shaw
- Munro Chambers — Max Shaw
- Jeff Christensen — Hal Shaw
- Deborah Odell — Tanya
- Jordan Scherer — Roy Hazen
- Ingrid Veninger — Mrs. Farr
[edit] Trivia
- Both Rebecca Romijn and Cameron Bright appear in the box office hit X-Men: The Last Stand.
