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REGION
1
EX-RENTAL
WILL
NEED
A
MULTI-REGION
PLAY
BACK
MACHINE
EXORCISM
OF
EMILY
ROSE
STARRING:
LAURA
LINNEY
LANGUAGE:
ENGLISH
AUDIO:
5.1
FORMAT:
WIDE
SCREEN
RUNNING
TIME:
122
MINS
RELEASE
DATE:
2005
| Movie
description |
| Based
on
a
true
story,
this
film
is
both
a
riveting
courtroom
drama
and
a
first
class
chiller.
A
Catholic
Priest
(Tom
Wilkinson)
is
on
trial
for
homicidal
negligence
after
performing
a
failed
exorcism
on
Emily
Rose,
devout
college
girl
(Jennifer
Carpenter)
now
dead
from
assorted
wounds
and
malnutrition.
Laura
Linney
plays
Erin
Bruner,
the
priest's
defense
lawyer,
and
Campbell
Scott
plays
the
chief
prosecutor,
who
argues
persuasively
that
Emily
was
likely
suffering
from
psychotic
epilepsy
and
could
have
been
saved
with
hospitalization
and
medicine.
The
demonic
possession
unfolds
in
a
series
of
spine-tingling
flashbacks
and
as
it
does
so,
the
initially
doubtful
Erin
is
visited
by
evil
forces
and
her
own
soul
seems
to
be
at
stake.
More
than
a
criminal
negligence
case,
the
trial
becomes
about
the
importance
of
recognizing
the
limits
of
rationality
and
the
possibility
of
a
world
beyond
the
visible.
In
portraying
the
extent
to
which
wildly
different
belief
systems
have
splintered
modern
society
this
film
couldn't
be
more
relevant
or
timely.
Linney
and
Campbell
are
first
rate,
as
is
to
be
expected,
creating
great
depth
for
their
characters
even
though
the
script
grants
them
almost
no
personal
lives;
it's
a
very
"stick
to
the
facts"
sort
of
tale.
Each
character
lives
a
life
of
apparent
near-isolation,
which
adds
to
the
cumulative
effect
of
unease.
The
house
where
Emily
grows
up
is
spookily
oppressive,
the
scenes
of
possession
are
truly
scary
and
a
dark
sense
of
foreboding
may
follow
viewers
long
after
the
credits
have
rolled.
Carpenter
earns
a
place
as
a
21st
century
scream
queen
with
her
hair-raising,
fearless
performance;
Mary
Beth
Hurt
plays
the
judge. |
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