| Audrey Rose | |
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 Audrey Rose promotional movie poster |
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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 |
Audrey Rose is a 1977 horror film, allegedly based on real life events, 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 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. They think that he is psychotic and don't believe him. But Ivy seems to be disturbed by her nightmares which keep getting worse. One day Elliot Hoover happens to come to their house and sees Ivy acting in a panic and burning her hands on her cold window, screaming "Daddy help me!" and "it's so hot!"
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 -one of Hinduism's holiest books.
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