The Reaping
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| Directed by | Stephen Hopkins |
| Produced by | Richard Mirisch Herb Gains Susan Downey Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis |
| Written by |
Carey Hayes Chad Hayes |
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Hilary Swank David Morrissey Idris Elba AnnaSophia Robb Stephen Rea |
| Music by | John Frizzell |
| Cinematography | Peter Levy |
| Edited by | Colby Parker Jr. Tod Feuerman |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $62,771,059 |
The Reaping is an 2007 American psychological horror thriller film, starring Hilary Swank. The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins for Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. The music for the film was scored by John Frizzell.
Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) and colleague, Ben (Idris Elba), investigate and disprove claims of miracles. While in Chile, they examine the corpse of a priest who remains in pristine condition despite being dead for 40 years. Eventually they discover the crypt where the body was laid to rest was near a tunnel being used to illegally dispose of toxic waste, which helped preserve the body. In Louisiana where she teaches, Katherine receives a call from a friend, Father Michael Costigan (Stephen Rea), who says that his photographs of her have developed burn marks that when assembled, form a sickle-like symbol, a possible warning from God, which she ignores. She meets Doug Blackwell (David Morrissey), a teacher from the nearby town of Haven, who asks Katherine to find out why Haven's river has turned red. The locals believe this is a biblical plague caused by a girl, Loren McConnell (AnnaSophia Robb), who they believe killed her older brother in the river. They travel to Haven where Katherine witnesses the river is entirely red, and chemical field tests remain inconclusive. Katherine and Doug come across ruins of an old church, where Doug explains it was destroyed one hundred years ago by several hurricanes that occurred over three years, forcing the entire town to rebuild in a new location. They find an extinguished fire pit with several animal bones inside. Meanwhile, Ben witnesses dead frogs seemingly fall from the sky. Doug invites them to spend the night at his house, since the town doesn't have a motel, where he reveals he comes from a long line of only children. That night, as they're about to eat dinner, the food becomes rotted with flies instantly. Katherine and Ben get a call asking them to come to a nearby farm, where they find that all of the are dying of some unknown disease. Ben begins to question whether the events could actually have biblical causes, but Katherine remains unconvinced. The owner of the farm tells them that the McConnell family would be visited by people who appeared to be Satan worshippers, and that he possibly witnessed them committing a sacrifice of some kind. Later that evening, Katherine explains to Doug at his wife's grave why she left the church; five years ago, she was an ordained minister. After a drought while doing missionary work in the Sudan with her husband and daughter, the locals sacrificed her family, believing they were the cause. Katherine and Doug have sex that night.
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