Godsend (film)
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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 it 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
Jessie and Paul Duncan are a happily married couple with an eight-year-old son. However, the day after their son Adam's eighth birthday, Adam is killed in a roadside accident. At Adam's funeral Jessie and Paul are confronted by Dr. Richard Wells, an old teacher of Jessie's. Dr. Wells offers to clone Adam to which the Duncans reluctantly agree. Everything seems fine with Adam II until he reaches his 8th birthday. That night he experiences a violent night terror. Dr. Wells explains the was a chance things might go wrong once Adam II reached the age when the original Adam died. From that moment on, Adam II continues to have night terrors until they become visions and he starts having them when he's wide awake.
Adam's visions are always the same: a boy named Zachary walks around in a school building while being laughed at by other children. These images alternate with images of the school burning and children screaming and the image of a woman being attacked and killed with a hammer.
By examining Adam and talking to him about his visions Paul finally finds out that the school is called Saint Pius and that Zachary's last name is Clark. With this information he manages to track down a former nanny of Zachary who informs Paul that Zachary was deeply disturbed; he was bullied at school, burned it down and, in the end, he killed his mother with a hammer before setting fire to their house. Through information that the nanny reveals about Zachary's father Paul finds out that this was none other than Dr. Wells. It turns out Dr. Wells mixed Adam's DNA with that of Zachary in the hopes of bringing his own son back to life.
[edit] Cast
- Greg Kinnear — Paul Duncan
- Rebecca Romijn — Jessie Duncan
- Robert De Niro — Richard Wells
- Cameron Bright — Adam Duncan
- Janet Bailey — Cora Williams
- Zoie Palmer — Susan Pierce
[edit] Trivia
- Both Rebecca Romijn and Cameron Bright appear in the box office hit X-Men: The Last Stand.
