Disadvantage in dark suburbia casts a looming shadow over a man suddenly beset by terrifying visions in this 1999 thriller
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There aren’t many movies that feature working-class characters and the minutiae of working-class day-to-day life in quite the hauntingly recognisable way that director and screenwriter David Koepp has managed with Stir of Echoes. Koepp is perhaps better known for co-writing blockbusters like Mission: Impossible, as well as thrillers Panic Room and Snake Eyes, but this 1999 thriller is worth a rewatch for its masterful transformation of a mundane working-class neighbourhood into a place of menace.
Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a working-class man living an ordinary life in a blue-collar neighbourhood in Chicago. As he is becoming swallowed up by suburbia and the realisation that his dreams of being something more are not going to happen, something extraordinary happens. At a neighbourhood party, his sister-in-law Lisa convinces him to let her hypnotise him. The hypnosis taps him in to another frequency: suddenly, he can see spirits.
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