Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
Acting
Blanchett makes psychic widow feel like Shakespeare, Reeves goes full redneck
Direction
Raimi restrains himself... mostly. Those vision sequences still slapper
Writing
Billy Bob Thornton's script grew up in these swamps, authentic and mean
Director
Sam Raimi
Cate Blanchett
Annie Wilson
Giovanni Ribisi
Buddy Cole
Keanu Reeves
Donnie Barksdale
Katie Holmes
Jessica King
Greg Kinnear
Wayne Collins
Hilary Swank
Valerie Barksdale
Michael Jeter
Gerald Weems
Kim Dickens
Linda
Gary Cole
David Duncan
Rosemary Harris
Annie's Granny
J.K. Simmons
Sheriff Pearl Johnson
Chelcie Ross
Kenneth King
John Beasley
Albert Hawkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Billy Bob Thornton based the script on his own mother's claimed psychic abilities growing up in Arkansas. The tarot readings in the film use his family's actual deck.
This was Raimi's 'serious filmmaker' pivot between Evil Dead cult status and Spider-Man blockbusterdom—he literally made the studio promise he could do one 'prestige' picture first. The compromise? A horror film with a prestige cast.
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