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Why this pick
A skeptical woman investigating disturbances at a remote postwar boarding school gives this the same gothic institutional chill and steadily tightening mystery.
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MOVIE2006 1h 31m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1965, after burning down a tree in her yard, rebel teenager Heather Fasulo is sent to the boarding school Falburn Academy in the middle of the woods by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo and negligent father Joe Fasulo. The headmistress, Ms. Traverse, accepts Heather in spite of her father's bad financial condition. The displaced Heather becomes close friends with Marcy Turner, while they are maltreated by their abusive classmate Samantha Wise. During the night, Heather has a nightmare of a student named Ann, covered in blood, and hears voices that seem to be coming from the woods. The next day, Marcy tells Heather that Ann was taken to a mental institution after attempting to commit suicide, and that she'd been covered in blood.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Patricia Clarkson
Mrs. Traverse
Marcia Bennett
Mrs. Mackinaw
Gordon Currie
Sheriff
Amber Cull
Mara
Agnes Bruckner
Heather Fasulo
Rachel Nichols
Samantha Wise
Lauren Birkell
Marcy Turner
Emma Campbell
Alice Fasulo