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Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 American horror thriller film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It stars Amanda Seyfried and James Norton. It was digitally released on April 29, 2021, by Netflix, and received mixed reviews from critics.
A number of landscape paintings from the Hudson River School feature prominently throughout the movie.
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PLOT SUMMARY :
In 1980, Catherine Clare, an art restorer lives in Manhattan with her husband George and daughter Franny. When George lands a job teaching art history at a college, the family moves into a large farm house in Chosen, New York.
Catherine feels isolated in the house. She finds a Bible tracking the deaths of the previous owners, and sees names scratched out and marked “Damned”. She sees strange lights which lead her to an antique ring, which she begins wearing. Franny feels a ghostly presence and insists on sleeping in her parents' room. Catherine employs brothers Eddie and Cole Lucks as farm hands, while George starts an affair with Willis, a female student.
George's colleague Justine Sokolov invites him and Catherine to dinner. She and Catherine become friends. On the way back home, George acts erratically, leading to him and Catherine fighting. George invites Floyd DeBeers, the department head, home. Floyd also feels the presence of a soul. He assures Catherine that the spirit is benevolent and offers to hold a seance.
George and Catherine throw a party and invite the neighbors and George's colleagues. During the party, Catherine finds out the previous owners were Eddie and Cole's parents, and that their father killed their mother, Ella and himself. Later, Catherine confronts George about the house's origins. As they argue, a radio begins playing, only stopping when George destroys it. Catherine asks George to take Franny to his parents' house.
While George is gone, Catherine and Floyd hold a seance. They see the ghost of Ella. Floyd tells Catherine there is another spirit in the house, and that Catherine should be careful until it is revealed. George begins hearing voices from the other spirit. Catherine discovers George's affair, and in response she starts one with Eddie. Catherine learns the paintings George claimed were his work were actually painted by his cousin, who drowned in a boating accident. Justine runs into George's dissertation advisor, who denies having written him a recommendation letter. The next day, Floyd confronts George, who admits to it and schedules a meeting to explain the situation.
Catherine prepares to lea
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