I See Dull People!

François Duhamel

Deep down beneath this haunted home there's nothing much doing

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• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Robert Zemeckis
• Norman (Oklahoma)
• Miranda Otto
• Harrison Ford

In many ways What Lies Beneath isn't even a ghost story or a thriller but just a tale of a relationship gone sour, albeit one with nasty consequences. Considering Claire's limp-wristed approach to her own life, it's pretty hard to sympathize with her as the heroine of the piece, and the lurid stuff between Norman and his fling might as well be called Banal Attraction. So why did this movie get made at all? Good question, and perhaps the only answer is the good old American fear of the libido and the devastating shame that attends it. Somebody is bound to get a kick out of these privileged people destroying each other, but the best thrillers offer us our own hearts, souls, and bodies in contorted reflection. Unfortunately this mirror is totally fogged over.