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| Kate Hudson has seen better real estate than on this poster for Iain Softley's The Skeleton Key |
A nurse working in a hospice in the Louisiana swampland discovers that something isn't as it should be at her workplace...
The Skeleton Key is written by Ehren Kruger (Scream 3 (2000)) and directed by Iain Softley (Backbeat (1994)).
The Skeleton Key is about Hoodoo magic, - a mix of African religious practices and beliefs brought to America by slaves, - and ghosts. It doesn't reinvent the spoon, but it does have good building of suspense, and Kate Hudson (You, Me and Dupree (2006)) is good as the protagonist. John Hurt (The Hunting of the Snark (1987)) and Gena Rowlands (Tempest (1982)) add substantial interest and weight with their performances.
The Skeleton Key is a good little mystery chiller with fine local musical choices but too much flickering CGI use.
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Cost: 43 mil. $
Box office: 91.9 mil. $
= Flop (returned 2.13 times its cost)
[The Skeleton Key premiered 29 July (Spain, UK and Ireland) and runs 104 minutes. Shooting took place in Louisiana, including New Orleans, and in Los Angeles, California from April - October 2004. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Four Brothers, to a 16 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another week in the top 5 (#5) and grossed 47.9 mil. $ (52.1 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 5.9 mil. $ (6.4 %) and Mexico with 4.7 mil. $ (5.1 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 2.5/4 star review, translating to a notch harder than this one. Softley returned with Inkheart (2008). Hudson returned in You, Me and Dupree (2006). The Skeleton Key is rotten at 37 % with a 5.26/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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