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One upside: A stellar performance from Amanda Seyfried.
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Amanda Seyfried, as Catherine Clare, and F. Murray Abraham, as Floyd DeBeers, in a scene from Things Heard and Seen.
Everyone likes a juicy ghost story, right? So it’s a bummer that there’s no juice and little to like about “Things Heard and Seen,” debuting this week on Netflix. The film botches a potent premise about dysfunctional marriage and how the past can infect the present when a malignant male narcissist puts up a lethal resistance to his wife’s growing empowerment.
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Things Heard And Seen is based on a novel, translated for the screen (and slightly renamed) by genre-hopping filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (
American Splendor). The result has the blunt faithfulness of a Lifetime Nora Roberts adaptation; whenever the camera turns toward, say, a horse or a bird, the assumption is that this was a rich symbol in the book, rather than the random cutaway it appears to be here. The early ’80s setting remains evocative, however, moving young intellectuals Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) and George (James Norton), along with daughter Franny (Ana Sophia Heger), from Manhattan to upstate New York home of spiritualism, art colonies, and drafty old farmhouses at the beginning of the film.
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A half-intriguing, half-banal ghost story is the latest disappointment from directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman.
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Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
With: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Rhea Seehorn, Ana Sophia Heger, F. Murray Abraham, Alex Neustaedter, Natalia Dyer, Karen Allen, Jack Gore, Michael O’Keefe, James Urbaniak.
It was 18 years ago how time flies in the indie world that the married directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman brought us “American Splendor,” an achingly humane, scabrously funny, miraculously playful and inventive lower-depths comedy based on the life and work of the lumpen verité comic-book diarist Harvey Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti in a performance of irascible brilliance. The movie was an