Audrey Rose (film)

Audrey Rose
Audrey Rose promotional movie poster
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.

Contents 1 Taglines 2 Plot 3 Main cast 4 References 5 External links

Taglines

• 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?

Plot

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.

Main cast

• Marsha Mason - Janice Templeton
• Anthony Hopkins - Elliot Hoover
• John Beck - Bill Templeton
• Susan Swift - Ivy Templeton
• Norman Lloyd - Dr. Steven Lipscomb
• John Hillerman - Prosecutor Scott Velie
• Robert Walden - Brice Mack

References

External links

• Official Homepage
• Pictures at Childstarlets
• Audrey Rose at the Internet Movie Database
• Audrey Rose at Allmovie
• Audrey Rose at the TCM Movie Database
• Filmweb entry

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