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The little stranger

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OFRB rating: 14A

The little stranger

"A character-driven psychological thriller, one whose larger implications will trouble your mind, like a ghost."--Washington Post"...Mr. Abrahamson lets the dread build slowly, nudged along by Stephen Rennicks's mournful, eerie score ..."--New York Times"...may be elegantly fashioned as a haunted-house thriller, but the relationships at its core are spooked by sadness..."--Variety

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The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is about to become entwined with his own

adult

live action