A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
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Kevin Costner is writer John James, after a recent divorce moves to a rural home in South Carolina with his young son and his pubescent daughter. There is a strange large mound behind the house near the edge of the woods.
Soon his daughter starts acting and dressing strangely, ultimately it is tied something going on in the mound that she visits at night, coming home muddy.
The movie is moderately interesting, Costner is in good form playing the type of character he has often played. The ending is pretty strange, I can't honestly say exactly what happened to his daughter.
It can be an interesting diversion if you don't have anything else to watch.
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Did you know
- TriviaBased on a short story from the horror anthology "Nocturnes" by John Connolly.
- GoofsJames and his contractor prepare a batch of ANFO (ammonium nitrate + fuel oil) to blow up the mound. This is a 'tertiary' explosive, which means you cannot set it off with fire. It would just burn. To set off the detonation, you need to explode a secondary explosive, like a stick of dynamite, which in turn needs to be set off with a primary explosive, like a blasting cap.
- Quotes
[first lines]
John James: [driving up to their new house] There it is.
Sam James: Real big.
John James: Mm. Want to go in first?
Sam James: Really?
John James: I don't see why not.
[turning to his daughter in the car]
John James: Are you coming? So?
Louisa James: [sulking] So what?
John James: So what do you... what do you think?
Louisa James: You already know what I think.
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $579,626
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1