Audrey Rose (film)

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Audrey Rose

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Directed by Robert Wise
Produced by Frank De Felitta
Joe Wizan
Written by Frank De Felitta
Starring Marsha Mason
Anthony Hopkins
John Beck
Susan Swift
Music by Michael Small
Cinematography Victor J. Kemper
Editing by Carl Kress
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) April 6, 1977
Running time 113 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget Unknown
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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.

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  • 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?

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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 -the holy book of Hindus.

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