The Awakening

2011

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

65
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 74 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 71684 71.7K

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Plot summary

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Director

Nick Murphy Photo
Nick Murphy

Top cast

Richard Durden Photo
Richard Durden as Alexander Cathcart
Rebecca Hall Photo
Rebecca Hall as Florence Cathcart
Andrew Havill Photo
Andrew Havill as George Vandermeer
Joseph Mawle Photo
Joseph Mawle as Edward Judd
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985.62 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 6
1.98 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by simmsmaggy 6 / 10

Beautifully filmed, open-ended, marred by cliches

This film is set in a post-World War One society, devastated by loss and alienated from traditional Christian answers about the afterlife. The settings, context and costumes are done perfectly. The tensions between the situation and characters develop quickly, with the help of some genteel and understated movie tropes. But it is in the these tropes that it loses its way somewhat, and towards the last quarter IMO it loses its way royally. Take a pick n mix from haunted doll house, weird kid, who's a ghost, repressed memories and crazy ladies and you can have the awakening of your choice.....
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

A Time for Ghosts

In 1921, in London, the arrogant and skeptical Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a famous for exposing hoax, helping the police to arrest con artists. The stranger Robert Mallory (Dominic West) tells her that the headmaster of the boarding school in Rookford had invited her to travel to Cumbrio to investigate a ghost that is frightening to death the pupils. He also tells that many years ago there was a murder in the real estate and recently the pupil Walter Portman had died. The reluctant Florence finally accepts to go to Cumbrio.On the arrival, she is welcomed by the governess Maud (Imelda Staunton) and the boy Thomas Hill. Sooner Florence discovers what had happened to Walter and then the students, teachers and staff are released on vacation, and Florence remains alone with Robert, Maud and Tom in the school. Florence is ready to leave the boarding school and strange things happen. Florence comments with Robert and he tells that there is only three persons in the boarding school, leaving Florence scared."The Awakening" is a ghost story that begins with the information that between 1914 and 1919, the war and the influenza claimed more than one million lives in Britain. The storyline is very similar to the 1995 "Haunted", with a woman that exposes hoax and swindlers traveling to her home town to investigate a ghost that is haunting the students of a boarding school. Nevertheless the supernatural story is engaging and has many plot points with new revelations. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Despertar" ("The Awakening")
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