The Mothman Prophecies Movie Review 2002

Supernatural thriller based on true events occurring in Point Pleasant, WV, in the mid-1960s. John and Mary Klein (Gere and Messing) are happily married, until a car crash with a moth-like creature only seen by Mary, who later dies, but not before making some preliminary sketches of the insect-like beast. John, a "Washington Post" reporter, mysteriously ends up in the town of Point Pleasant, where things get weird. The town, which is actually far from pleasant, boasts cop Connie (Linney) the sole voice of reason in the superstitious bunch of locals, some of whom have seen the same creature Mary did, and John and Connie team to solve the Mothman mystery. Gere and Linney are fine actors wasted in this ho-hum story. Movie does have an aptly creepy tone, however, and Bates is good as the hermit-ish psychic phenomena expert.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 119 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Hallucinations/Illusions, True Stories, Psychic Abilities, Widows & Widowers, Small-Town Sheriffs, Front Page, American South

Screenplay

Richard Hatem

Cast

Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Debra Messing, Lucinda Jenney, Alan Bates, David Eigenberg, Nesbitt Blaisdell

Cinematography

Fred Murphy

Director

Mark Pellington

Music

Tomandandy

Other

Pud Cusack, Liza Richardson, Brian Berdan, Troy Sizemore, Susan Lyall, Richard Hoover

Producer

Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Gary W. Goldstein, Screen Gems, Lakeshore Entertainment, Sony Pictures