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A journalist investigates several teenage deaths, which are linked to a cursed videotape and the rumour that anyone who watches it will die a week later. Her growing obsession with the tape endangers herself and her family - and to avoid the predicted fate, she has just seven days to find out where the recording came from. Gore Verbinski's remake of the Japanese supernatural horror, starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson and Brian Cox
2002
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mature-scenes
violent-scenes
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General
Horror
Movie/Drama
Mystery
Cast & Crew
Naomi Watts
(Actor)
.. Rachel Keller
Martin Henderson
(Actor)
.. Noah Clay
Brian Cox
(Actor)
.. Richard Morgan
David Dorfman
(Actor)
.. Aidan Keller
Jane Alexander
(Actor)
.. Dr Grasnik
Lindsay Frost
(Actor)
.. Ruth Embry
Amber Tamblyn
(Actor)
.. Katie Embry
Daveigh Chase
(Actor)
.. Samara Morgan
Gore Verbinski
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Naomi Watts
(Actor)
.. Rachel Keller
Born:
September 28, 1968
in
Shoreham, Kent
Best Known For:
Playing Betty in Mulholland Drive.
Early-life:
Naomi Ellen Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent on September 28, 1968. Her parents divorced when she was four and she moved across South East England with her mother. Naomi's parents reconciled but, two years later, her father died. Following his death, Naomi moved around England and Wales before settling in Sydney, Australia when she was 14, where her mother enrolled her in acting lessons. Naomi wanted to become an actress after watching the film Fame (1980). She auditioned for many TV adverts and got her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Naomi tried to become a model at 18 and signed to a model agency that sent her to Japan. After failing several auditions, she returned to Sydney and worked in advertising for a department store and later as an assistant fashion editor for the magazine Follow Me. She decided to quit her job and pursue acting after participating in a drama workshop.
Career:
While living in Australia, Watts appeared in such films as Flirting (1991), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Gross Misconduct (1993) as well as the soap opera Home and Away. She then moved to America but struggled early on in her career to land work. Watts got a supporting role in Tank Girl (1995) but it flopped at the box office. She then appeared in a number of largely forgotten films and TV programmes before getting her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive (2001). Following this, she landed the lead role in The Ring (2002) and then 21 Grams (2003). Her first comedy was I Heart Huckabees (2004). The next year, she appeared as Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and reprised her role as Rachel for The Ring 2 (2005). Watts then went on to appear in The Painted Veil (2006), Funny Games (2007), The International (2009) and The Impossible (2012). She also produced The Painted Veil and Funny Games. More recently, Watts appeared in the second film from the Divergent Series, Insurgent (2015), as well as Demolition (2015), Chuck (2016) and the Netflix drama series Gypsy. She was also executive producer for Gypsy.
Quote:
"If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."
Trivia:
She was Oscar-nominated for best actress for The Impossible and 21 Grams.
Martin Henderson
(Actor)
.. Noah Clay
Brian Cox
(Actor)
.. Richard Morgan
Born:
June 01, 1946
in
Dundee
Best Known For:
Being the original Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter.
Early-life:
Brian Denis Cox was born on June 1, 1946, in Dundee, to an Irish immigrant family. He was the youngest of five children. His mother, Mary Ann Guillerline, worked in the jute mills as a spinner, while his dad, Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, was a weaver and died of cancer when Brian was nine. Brian developed a passion for movies and, inspired by the work of Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy, decided he wanted to become an actor. At 14, he joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre, and in 1966 honed his craft with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career:
Cox's earliest TV appearances were as an extra in cult TV series The Prisoner. He has been a mainstay in the world of TV and film ever since, popping up in Hammer House of Horror, Minder, Frasier and Deadwood. He played Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter, Michael Mann's adaptation of Red Dragon. (The name was later spelled Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs). He has appeared in a string of major Hollywood offerings, including The Long Kiss Goodnight, X-Men 2, Troy, The Bourne Supremacy, Zodiac and Red. On the stage he has appeared in Titus Andronicus, Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. He has also voiced characters in the video games Killzone and Manhunt.
Quote:
"I'm an actor who does really interesting work in independent movies. I want to keep doing that because I don't want the burden of an opening weekend sitting on my shoulders."
Trivia:
In 2003, Cox was awarded a CBE for services to drama.
David Dorfman
(Actor)
.. Aidan Keller
Jane Alexander
(Actor)
.. Dr Grasnik
Lindsay Frost
(Actor)
.. Ruth Embry
Amber Tamblyn
(Actor)
.. Katie Embry
Daveigh Chase
(Actor)
.. Samara Morgan
Gore Verbinski
(Director)
Born:
March 16, 1964
in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Best Known For:
Directing the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Early-life:
Born Gregor Verbinski in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on March 16, 1964, the third of five children of Laurette and Victor. In 1967, his family moved near San Diego in California. Gore was a guitarist in several Los Angeles rock bands, including the Daredevils and the Drivers, and he used to make films with his friends. After developing a passion for film-making, he sold his guitar to buy a Super-8mm camera. He went on to attend the UCLA Film School, graduating in 1987. He started his career directing music videos and commercials. He made his feature film directing debut with Mouse Hunt. It was a commercial success, making more than $120million at the box office.
Career:
Verbinski followed up the success of Mouse Hunt with action comedy The Mexican (2001) and horror film remake The Ring (2002), which grossed more than $200million worldwide. His big break came in 2003 when he directed Johnny Depp in the hugely popular Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. It grossed more than $650million worldwide. His next film, The Weather Man (2005), was his first box-office failure. He bounced back by directing two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. The animated comedy western Rango followed in 2011 and box-office disaster The Lone Ranger arrived in 2013.
Quote:
"I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them."
Trivia:
Verbinski won an Academy Award in 2012 when Rango was named Best Animated Feature Film of the Year.
