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Reawakening

2024 · 90 min

A quiet, unsettling drama that keeps you guessing about a family's fragile truth, heavy with grief and doubt.

Directed by
Virginia Gilbert
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Tagline
What truth matters most?
Overview
John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds.

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Directed by
Virginia Gilbert
Genres
Drama, Mystery
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • identity
  • family
  • deception
  • memory
Places
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, mystery
Directed by
Virginia Gilbert
Written by
Virginia Gilbert
Starring
Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, Erin Doherty, Niamh Cusack, Nicholas Pinnock, Aliona Baranova, Danya Dixon, Tomi May
Cinematography
Giles Harvey
Runtime
90 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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